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From: mct@rti.UUCP (Millard Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Undocumented Command & Option Key Capabilities
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Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 11:49:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  7 11:49:58 1987
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To Whom It May Concern,

     The Macintosh seems to be rife with undocumented "features".
Hold down cmd-option-shift-delete during booting (presumably turning
the power on with your nose) and the hard disk won't be recognized.
Other command and option sequences cause the Imagewriter II to print
bidirectionally, the internal floppy drive to put 800K on a 400K disk,
the CPU to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, or, in general, do just about
anything you might want to do and can't figure out how.  

     This brings me to the point of all this.  Is there a central
repository of the various things the command and option keys can do?
If there isn't, is there any interest in developing one?  Seems to me
it could make life a lot easier.  If such a repository doesn't exist, let's 
have an electronic "show of hands" of people interested in contributing to
the effort.

                               Tad Taylor
                                   (Arpanet:  mct@rti.rti.org)
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