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Re: Function keys



Willis Poole (wpoole@aa.net) wrote:
: Matt Portune (mportune@telerama.lm.com) wrote:
: : Hey everybody!  I just got a nice juicy new keyboard for my GS, with 
: : function keys!  So, my question is, besides 'hotkeys', what other 
: : inits/DA's etc. are there to utilize all the function keys?  

: : Also, before the "powerkey" startup became standard on macs, they used to 
: : sell it as an external box that your keyboard plugged into, and would 
: : turn the system on when the 'power'/reset key was pressed.  Anybody know 
: : if this is still available?  I tested it once on a GS and it worked.  Of 
: : course, shutdown didn't work, but I figure some kind of init or DA could 
: : be written to fix that.  Any idea?  I'd love to have power key control, 
: : since my CPU is like 90 feet from the keyboard and monitor.  hehe :)

Matt,

Sorry about the double post but I had a lockup and my msg didnt get 
posted, so what I wanted to say was get "Shotcuts" from SDGS vol #51 I 
think, it will do all you want to rather than several inits that cause 
crashes..it wont control the power but its a nice single program.

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