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From: amarcum@next.com (Alan M. Marcum)
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Subject: Re: Ejecting the floppy
Summary: ioctl(fd, DKIOCEJECT, 0)
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Date: 25 Jan 91 18:05:00 GMT
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carlton@cs.berkeley.edu (Mike Carlton) in <10365@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>:
> The only way I can see is to use /usr/etc/disk and this is kludgey.

One could write a small C program which includes a line similar to

	ioctl(fd, DKIOCEJECT, 0);

after opening the appropriate device and assigning its file descriptor
to fd.  DKIOCEJECT is defined in <nextdev/disk.h>.
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Alan M. Marcum
NeXT Technical Support
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