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From: calvin@portia.stanford.edu (Peter Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: LC and Powerkey
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.194526.17685@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 13 Feb 91 19:45:26 GMT
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In article <6474@navy3.UUCP> porter@motcid.UUCP (Richard Porter) writes:
>The summary says most of it: Does Powerkey by Sophisticated Circuits 
>work on an LC? 
>
>ALso, does it really turn the power off when the "Shutdown" command
>is executed from the "Special" menu? Is so, how?
>

	Yes, PowerKey does turn off your mac when you select the ShutDown item in
the Special menu. I think that it does this by intercepting the shutdown
command, by means of a cdev called PowerKey, and then it send a command 
to the actual PowerKey box by means of the ADB cable that connects it to
the computer. The box then shuts down the computer when the normal
shutdown message shows up on your screen.

	Doesn't the LC already shut itself off when you select shutdown?

Peter