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i am not sure but...
for eject:
ShellExecute(0, "Eject", "E:\", NULL, NULL, ... )
anyway, just do ShellExecute on CD drive with EJECT verb... if explorer
can do it, let him do it :)

Mikhail

Peter Barton wrote:
> 
> I'm building a kiosk type application, which as part of its operations
> copies files onto CDR discs. The Adaptec DirectCD driver seems to work
> fine as far as making the drive accessable from my software, just like
> reading / writing a hard disk.
> 
> The big problem is ejecting discs, and also formatting discs. DirectCD
> won't let a disc be ejected until it is closed - you can't even eject
> using the eject button on the CD drive. Problem is that there will be
> no way for the user to open the DirectCD Wizard and close the disc
> manually. Is there any way programatically that I can either close the
> disc myself, tell DirectCD to close it, or even just force the disc
> out unclosed? The source code I found will only spit out a closed
> disc, otherwise it fails. I notice that Eject from Windows Explorer
> still works, so I guess they're either forcing it, or there is
> something special happening there that DirectCD knows about.
> 
> This is with DirectCD 2.5 by the way, I'm about to go and buy version
> 3 to see if that helps me at all...
> 
> Peter Barton: pbarton@tig.com.au
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