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From: ephraim@think.COM (Ephraim Vishniac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problem with FKEY 0 in System 6.0.3?
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Date: 30 Apr 89 19:01:28 GMT
References: <4466@wiley.UUCP>
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In article <4466@wiley.UUCP> david@wiley.UUCP (David Hull) writes:
>If you're running System 6.0.3 try this: hit FKEY 0 (command-shift-0).
>My cx crashes if the current application is Finder, and beeps if it is
>anything else.  The problem occurs under MultiFinder and without, with
>lots of inits and with none (booted directly off the System Tools 6.0.3
>disk).  ResEdit doesn't show any FKEYs installed in slot 0.

>Please tell me I'm not going crazy.

You're not going crazy.

Instead of looking in your System file with ResEdit, look in your
Desktop file.  Found FKEY 0?  And it's not code?  It's actually the
"signature resource" from an FKEY manager application.  This was a
logical, but unfortunate, choice of signature for the FKEY manager.

There are two ways you can fix the problem:

1. Don't type command-shift-zero.

2. Turn off the bundle bit on the FKEY manager, then rebuild your
Desktop.

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