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From: krazykid@bu-pub.bu.edu (Ernest Kim)
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Subject: Re: Sys 7 little bucket in upper right corner
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Date: 18 Jun 91 00:15:57 GMT
References: <1991Jun5.233110.1753@cs.sfu.ca> <18187@venera.isi.edu>
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In article <18187@venera.isi.edu>, jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
|> In article <1991Jun5.233110.1753@cs.sfu.ca> shell@cs.sfu.ca (Barry Shell) writes:
|> 
|>    Has anyone had the following funny thing happen:
|>    A little tiny bucket appears in the upper right hand corner of the
|>    menu bar with an arrow pointing down into it. If you hold down the
|>    option and command keys the bucket fills up with a nice beep. Doing
|>    it again empties the bucket with a different sounding beep.
|> 
|>    Is this part of system 7.0? Does it mean the bucket (?) is getting full?

This is called the "sticky fingers" option of System 7.  I believe it is supposed to save you the trouble holding down, lets say the shift key, when you need to select multiple objects.  The new issue of MacWorld has an article on system 7, and all new new features.

Ernest Kim