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From: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Another thing lost in 7
Message-ID: <12156@claris.com>
Date: 30 May 91 14:29:44 GMT
References: <1991May28.182139.14835@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991May29.133433.3628@gorm.ruc.dk>
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jba@gorm.ruc.dk (Jan B.Andersen) writes:

>philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:

>>A feature of 6.0.x was you could do COMMAND-OPTION-E in
>>the Finder to do the quivalent of dragging the selected
>>disk icon to the trash (eject, unmount). Right? I don't
>>have 6.0.x available to check my recollection of this.

>It was in 6.0.7.

>>This feature seems to have disappeared (COMMAND-OPTION-E
>>does nothing on my IIcx) running 7.0.

>It has! I miss it.

However, it is back in an easier to use guise -- COMMAND-Y (ie, Put Away)
will eject and unmount a removable volume such as a floppy, removable
hard disk, CD-ROM volume, or File Server.  It is no longer an undocumented
capability, the naive user will now find it -- it is documented in the Balloon
Help entry for the Put Away command.

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