Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bunny!ps01
From: ps01@bunny.UUCP (Paul Suh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why does my keyboard stick in UPPERCASE?
Message-ID: <5783@bunny.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 88 17:12:32 GMT
References: <1680@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: ps01@bunny.UUCP (Paul Suh)
Organization: GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA
Lines: 22
Keywords: keyboard uppercase

In article <1680@boulder.Colorado.EDU> heuring@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Vincent Heuring) writes:
>Every few times I run an application on my Mac II, the keyboard
>shifts to upper case.  It happens at random, and all keys (not just
>alphas) are shifted.  I cannot get it to revert to lower case
>through any combination of caps lock, etc.  The only fix is
>to reboot. (Unplugging the KB doesn't work, nor does exiting the
>application.)
>
>What is the matter here?

You have probably activated the Easy Access feature by accident, hittin
the shift key five times in a row, then twice more to do a shift lock.
The short-run solution is to hit the shift key five times, which will
deactivate Easy Access.  The long run solution is to remove the Easy
Access INIT from your system folder.  

Look in the upper right-hand corner of your screen, in the menu bar, for
the EA mini-icons, to the right of the MultiFinder icon if you're
running MF.  Sometimes between applications, it doesn't get properly
redrawn (bug, I guess).  

					--Paul