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From: North_TJ@cc.curtin.edu.au (Tim North)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Finder eject-and-dismount keyboard shortcut
Message-ID: <5088.27635524@cc.curtin.edu.au>
Date: 10 Dec 90 01:28:04 GMT
References: <2470.275fd964@waikato.ac.nz>
Organization: Curtin University of Technology, Perth, W.Australia.
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In article <2470.275fd964@waikato.ac.nz>, ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
> One of our local Apple people told me about a Finder keyboard shortcut I
> hadn't known about before. If you hold down the option key while selecting
> "Eject" from the File menu (either with option-cmd-E or option-select-
> menu-item-with-mouse), and keep holding the option key down, the Finder
> will eject the disk, and then dismount it (the icon disappears from
> [...]	 
> Can somebody tell me, is this a relatively new shortcut? I'm just curious.
> It just seems like such an odd one.

Useful, though. It absolutely scares the *willies* out of new users when they
see you dragging their disk into the trashcan... :-)

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