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From: levene@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Robert A. Levene)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: FOUND: Mac CapsLock/Control swap
Summary: Did it!
Message-ID: <1991May10.192804.12498@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 10 May 91 19:28:04 GMT
References: <91124.234131JACOBSEN@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: levene@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Robert A. Levene)
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A while back, I posted a request for how to swap the caps lock
and control keys on an extended Mac ADB Keyboard.

Here's what I found out.  Use at your own risk.

Well here's how:

Hardware
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Remove the capslock keytop.

There are clips above and below the key (toward tab and shift).

Use a paper clip to separate the clips outward, as if opening a mouth.

Gently lift out the key assembly.  Careful not to lose the spring or
other hardware.

There's a teensy white piece which "catches" with the gray post.
Disassemble, then re-assemble without the white catch.  Store in safe
place, perhaps tape to keyboard.

The key no longer "sticks."

Software
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Use ResEdit to re-assign the key.  See chapter 9 of the Resedit manual
by Alley and Strange.

Be Careful!!

- Rob

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