Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!claris!UUCP!peirce From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Keyboard light wierdness Message-ID: Date: 24 Jun 91 05:59:41 GMT Reply-To: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) Organization: Peirce Software Lines: 19 X-Mailer: uAccess - Mac Release: 1.5 In article <1991Jun22.193335.10052@neon.Stanford.EDU>, philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes: > In article , peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) writes: > |> Could be, but on my machines at home (completely protected - except > |> from cats!) I've often observed my num lock LED getting turned on. > |> This behavior predates System 7. > Is your system completely protected from Excel? 2.2 turns on the num lock > light, and only turns it off if you ask it to (by hitting SHIFT-CLEAR which > is actually labelled num lock), or quit (i.e., not if you switch applications > or launch a DA). It would actually make sense if the light stayed on by > default, since the keypad seems to be in "num lock" mode by default. This might be it. I'm not a big Excel user, but I do run it every now and again. I'll have to take notice if I had been running Excel when this happens... -- Michael Peirce -- outpost!peirce@claris.com -- Peirce Software -- Suite 301, 719 Hibiscus Place -- Macintosh Programming -- San Jose, California 95117 -- & Consulting -- (408) 244-6554, AppleLink: PEIRCE