Terminal Opening CD drive

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  1. trainguy77, May 8, 2006

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    Can you open you CD drive from Terminal. I found ways to eject media but I want to open the drive when nothing is in it.(emac) I really am just wondering if it can be done.

    Also can you have terminal display a text bubble/alert on the screen?
     
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  2. grapes911, May 8, 2006

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    To open the cd drive:
    drutil tray eject
     
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  3. robbieduncan, May 9, 2006

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    You can use Applscript from the Terminal to display a dialog. You cannot call display dialog directly, but you can have the Finder do it for you:

    osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to display dialog "Your message here"'
     
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