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I don't know of a scripty way to do it, but the CDROM ioctls let you
query for the presence of a CD in the drive.  So you can poll for an
inserted disk.  I've done this in C.  Not all drives correctly support
it, however.  Ot at least, they didn't 4-5 years ago when I last did
this.

Michael


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