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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Keyboard Control of the Mac
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.232531.16816@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 11 Dec 90 23:25:31 GMT
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In article <1990Dec11.155505.7510@umiami.ir.miami.edu>, gross@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Mondo) writes:
> This idea just hit me...well was sort of forced on me.
> 
> My mouse died.  Just wouldn't no matter what I did.  But you know the worse
> part, you can use a Mac without it!  I mean I don't mind the mouse, but
> gee, just because some $100 part (now this I can hardly believe :) ) dies,
> your $3000+ investment stands as a expensive paperweight.
> 
> So while the System 7 people are busily stealing from Windows (a la
> New Look), maybe they could add a feature that allows you to mainipulate
> the desktop (select icons, delete files,etc...) from the keyboard only?

It's already available - if you have the Easy Access init in the system
folder, you can do mouse actions from the keyboard (I leave it to you to work
out how to install it _after_ the mouse has broken).
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu