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From: dburr@monsoon.berkeley.edu (Donald Burr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Weird Bug in System 7.0b4
Keywords: System 7.0b4 communications modem programs bug weird
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.043930.25863@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 91 04:39:30 GMT
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I'm running into a weird bug when using commmunications programs under
System 7.0b4.  This has happened with both ZTErm 0.85 and White Knight 11.10.

Here's the story.

I'd be typing away, and everything would be normal.  Then all of a sudden,
my speaker makes a weird noise, like an ascending whistle kind of sound.
Then, things are OK for a while, until that sound sounds again.  Then my
keyboard starts doing weird things, like everything I type is shifted.
Not only are lowercase letters shifted to uppercase (as if the CAPS LOCK
were down), but numbers are also shifted (like a 1 becomes a !, a 2 becomes
a @, etc.)  Usually pressing either left, right, or both shift key(s) simul-
taneously will cause the speaker to make the whistling sound again, and the
problem ceases (i.e. keyboard returns to normal).

Details of system: Mac Classic, 4 meg ram, System 7.0b4, running the following
INITS: BroadCast 1.2, DeskPicture 2.0.3, IconMaster-HD 1.0, Fruits of Passion
2.4, CEToolbox 1.5.1, Magic Menu 2.0 (although neither its icon shows up
at startup, nor the Magic Menu appears under the Finder), Super Boomerang
2.0.3, and MacinTalk 2.0.

Can anyone shed some light on this subject?
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