On Nov 29, 1994 at 18:02, David Nugent of 3:632/348{at}fidonet wrote:

 >> Can someone inform  me of how to open and close a cd drive
 >> door or trolly by means of software. or where to look for
 >> information on a device of any kind
 DN>
 DN> This is device specific - see if you can get your suppliers to find the
 DN> information. AFAIK, the call - if it is even available - will vary from
 DN> one drive to the next.

The alternative is:

    [DOS]

        Check out Ralf Brown's interrupt list and check for the MSCDEX
        API calls.

    [OS/2]

        Check out the MMPM/2 APIs.


    - dave
    d.begley{at}ieee.org

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