Article ID: 34338
Article Last Modified on 11/21/2006
This article was previously published under Q34338
SUMMARY
The Eject statement needs to be added to Appendix E of the "Microsoft QuickBasic 1.00 Basic Language Reference." The Eject routine ejects both the external and internal floppy drives at once. The following is an example:
PRINT "The floppy disk(s) are about to be ejected."
CALL EJECT
PRINT "The disk(s) are now ejected."
In earlier versions of the Microsoft Basic Interpreter and Compiler for the Macintosh, you had to call your own machine language routine to eject disks.
MORE INFORMATION
The following information is taken from the README file from the QuickBasic 1.00 release disk:
E.10.2 Toolbox Library Statement Reference
The following new Toolbox Library statement was added after the manual was printed:
Eject
Ejects the disk in the internal and external drive. This is an MBPC resource.
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