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From: takahash@bnrmtv.UUCP (Alan Takahashi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ejecting disks using Com-Shift-[1 or 2]
Message-ID: <3053@bnrmtv.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 14:46:03 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 12 14:46:03 1987
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In article <2492@super.upenn.edu>, mayerk@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Kenneth Mayer) writes:
> Long ago, you could eject a disk using Com-Shift-1 or Com-Shift-2
> almost anytime, within any application. It seems that that has
> changed. I notice it the most when I eject my system disk from the
> internal drive of my 512e and insert an application disk like MS-W**d.
> Now, I still have another disk in my external drive, but I no longer
> need it, and when I get the hated "Please swap 'till you drop" dialog
> box, I can't Com-Shift-2 to get the darn disk out of the external
> drive so I can put one of the other disks in it. (Got it?) This can be
> very frustrating; It is as if I temporarirly had a single drive
> system.
> 
> Any comment as to why Apple removed this low-level construct? I would
> appreciate if they put it back. (Who did it harm when it was there?)

As far as I'm aware, Cmd-Shift-1 and Cmd-Shift-2 have always worked this
way.  They will eject a disk under normal conditions, but if you get
into a 'Please insert disk <name>' dialog, the two FKEYS no longer work
until the disk swaps are finished.

This 'feature' has bitten me many times, and I wish someone would fix it.
Any comments?  Apple?

> Kenneth Mayer			|	Teacher: "Two plus two equals..."
> mayerk@eniac.seas.upenn.edu	|	Student: "Four, but what's a two?"

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