Open disk tray in os 9

I've recently sold a second hand eMac to a client who wanted to buy a newer Mac running OS 9 nativly.
This is an eMac of the more recent kind, the white kind with no button on the disk tray case.
But yesterday he asked me how that he should open his disc tray. Apparantly his eject button on his keyboard does not work in OS 9 (but it does in OS X - we've tested this). But there is no button on the case (unless you fidget with that white case thingy and press the black open button with a pensel, inside).
Is there somebody who can give me some advise on where I could find a usefull answer to open the tray from the system (os 9)?
thx
Jonathan

The eject key on an Apple keyboard should work as expected on an nVidia graphics 700 MHz or 800 MHz eMac booted directly into OS 9. Use Control Panels> Extensions Manager to check for disabled CD/DVD and keyboard extensions (it may help to select View as Packages).
Check Applications (Mac OS 9) folder / Utilities/ Apple Utilities; there's a utility in there (Eject Extras folder, if I remember right) that can be double-clicked to install an Eject icon in the menu bar (similar to the OS X feature) as well as an Eject control strip module.
Credit goes to Don Archibald for these two links:
Eject Extras
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