opening the dvd-r drawer on a G5 tower

Kai Staats kstaats at terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Mar 30 09:28:17 MST 2006


On Friday 24 24 March 2006 12:42, Jim Pelton wrote:
> Steve,
> If you are using gnome or kde, perhaps you can define a keyboard
> shortcut to eject the cdrom.
> Maybe pbbuttons will help also.  On my iBook, I believe that pbbuttons
> takes care of those 'special' keys.
> And, there is a command, 'eject', that you could probably use to eject
> the cdrom tray.

	open: eject [ENTER]
	close: eject -t [ENTER]

There is a substantial man page for this relatively simple command:

	man eject [ENTER]

kai


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