Re: Shift in GS/OS

[shack@pro-ict.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

paulb@eecs.nwu.edu (Paul Brazis) writes:

>I doubt that it is an easter egg, since I found it on a Mac as well as a GS,
>but... when I repeatedly hit the <shift> button while in the Finder (I have
>GS/OS System 6), a little icon appears in the extreme upper right corner of
>the screen, in the menu bar. What does this do? It looks like a little basin,
>keep on hitting the shift, and an arrow appers. What is this for, and what
>are all the different "settings"?

As was pointed out you have easy access installed. It gives you sticky keys
and a keyboard mouse. You press shift five times to activate sticky keys and
five times again to disable it. You turn on keyboard mouse with
ctrl-shift-clear and off with clear. 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9 work as direction keys
for the mouse and 5 is the button. 0 works as a buttn lock and period unlocks
it. 

This is built in to the ROM 3 so if that's what you have you don't need easy
access. I use it on my Mac from time to time - it works in exactly the same
way. The Mac version lets you have sounds for sticky keys and the mouse too.
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