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From: ben@tasis.utas.oz.au@munnari.oz (Ben Lian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Self-mutilating keyboard map---what's going on?
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Date: 25 Oct 89 01:46:56 GMT
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It has just happened again! My schizophrenic keyboard map has just flipped
from 'International' to 'Domestic', but the keyboard CDEV still shows it
set at 'International'. As a result, some keys (e.g., the key pad, 'b', 'n',
spacebar, and a bunch of others down around the bottom row) take on whole
new personas. This happens infrequently and does not seem to follow any
particular pattern (maybe only when the moon is full, or perhaps at times
of intense solar activity?). In the past year, I've been hit about 10 times.
It does not seem to be fatal---reinstallation of the system from floppy
cures the problem. Until the next time.

Can anybody suggest what might be happening? Has anyone experienced this
before? I am running under 6.0.2 on a Mac Plus. INITS = standard Apple +
init 2.0 + hierDA 0.9984 + Disktop 3.0.4 + SFScrollInit + SUM Shield II + 
SuperClock 3.5. CDEVS = standard Apple + matching ones for the INITs just 
listed.


Ben Lian

Dept of EE & CS, Uni of Tasmania, GPO Box 252C, Hobart TAS 7001, Australia
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