Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!hplabs!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!jack!wolf!drew From: drew@wolf.UUCP (Drew Dean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Suitcase / Mouse Problems... Message-ID: <646@wolf.UUCP> Date: 19 Feb 88 00:17:43 GMT Organization: Systems'n'Software San Diego, CA Lines: 69 Keywords: Desktop File I received the following today: >From sdcsvax!ucsd.edu!uunet!DREA-GRIFFIN.ARPA!Peter Thu Feb 18 06:42:31 1988 remote from jack Received: by wolf.UUCP (smail2.5) id AA18940; 18 Feb 88 06:42:31 PST (Thu) Received: by jack.UUCP (smail2.5) id AA27734; 18 Feb 88 06:22:30 PST (Thu) Received: from ucsd.edu by sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (5.58/5.0) id AA11143 for wolf!drew; Wed, 17 Feb 88 22:46:30 PST Received: by ucsd.edu (5.58/UCSD-1.0) id AA04062 for jack!wolf!drew@sdcsvax; Wed, 17 Feb 88 22:46:22 PST Received: from DREA-GRIFFIN.ARPA by uunet.UU.NET (5.54/1.14) id AA00616; Tue, 16 Feb 88 09:51:18 EST Date: Tue, 16 Feb 88 09:06 AST From: Peter J Gergely Subject: Double Clicking sometimes doesn't work To: wolf!drew, Sun.COM!ereid%moth Cc: DREA-XX.ARPA!g.mcdougall Message-Id: <880216090659.2.PETER@DREA-GRIFFIN.ARPA> Alias-Address: GERGELY@DREA-XX.ARPA Alias-Address: PETER@DIAL|DREA-Griffin Postal-Address: 9 Grove St., P.O. Box 1012, Dartmouth, NS B2Y 3Z7, Canada Phone-Number: (902) 426-3100 x 215 [8:30am to 4:15pm Atlantic time] Template-For-Reply: COMPATIBLE-1R-REPLY-TEMPLATE Gentlemen: I have read your messages concerning how sometimes double- clicking in System 4.2 doesn't work. What I have to say may be unrelated, but may prove useful on some count. Last night, I was at a friends house (g.mcdougall@drea-xx.arpa) who was demonstrating how sometimes (95%) his system (on a GCC FX-20, on a 1MB Mac Plus ) would not load Suitcase upon a fresh boot. When this happened, double-clicking would not work opening a file, or folder, until the first time a folder was opened. Suspecting the desktop, I created a small system 4.2 floppy, with nothing else except Suitcase. Booting revealed the same problem, but booting holding down the clover-option keys to rebuild the desktop worked just fine. That is, if I rebuilt the desktop everything looked fine, but reboot and it was back to the problem. Strange, I said, so I loaded keycaps to see if there were any stuck keys. Sure enough, the shift was highlighted. The problem was that the "/" was broken on the keypad of the MacPlus keyboard producing the shift and one of the arrows. Replacing the keyboard with his hold Mac 512 one solved all the problems. As I said, this may be unrelated to the key mask problem of Milles Bornes under Multifinder, but we are happy to have solved this particular one. As I cannot forward this to comp.sys.mac, I would appreciate if one of you would please do so. - Peter -- Peter J. Gergely (DREA, P.O. Box 1012, Dartmouth, NS B2Y 3Z7 Canada) ARPANET: gergely@DREA-XX.ARPA (preferred) or Peter@DREA-GRIFFIN.ARPA DIALNET: Peter@DIAL|DREA-GRIFFIN CSNET: gergely%cs.dal.cdn@ubc.csnet UUCP: gergely@dalcs.UUCP GENIE: GERGELY ------- Just thought I'd pass it on..... Drew Dean UUCP: {sdcsvax,ihnp4}!jack!wolf!drew FROM Disclaimers IMPORT StandardDisclaimer;