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From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: spontaneous renaming of Mac files
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Date: 28 Jul 88 15:22:27 GMT
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>she launches an application, the name under the application's icon
>changes to a dash (-).  She can see this happen in the split-second
>before the application's window opens.  When she exists the application,
>
>A second problem is that when she is using Excel, cells which contain
>data suddenly change, their data being replaced by dashes (do I detect
   Her keyboard or mouse is probably tweaked. Have her check that all the mouse
and keyboard cables are tight, then open keycaps. Watch the keyboard. Does the
dash key flicker occasionally? If so its the keyboard. Click a few times. 
  Does the dash key flicker? Its the mouse (try this with the mouse plugged into
the keybard and the back.)

   Pierce
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