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Re: Keyboard mystery...

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From: M
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 00:00
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In article <AF9B9CF8966825F68@powrd.demon.co.uk>,
gunnar.pettersson@powrd.demon.co.uk (Gunnar Pettersson) wrote:

> The mystery is that when pressing any one of the same five keys (e,u,i,o,a)
> on any keyboard, suddenly none of them "register", they're all dead.
> 
> Through a process of elimination I've found that the problem is _not_ with
> the keyboards or ADB cables. I tried three different keyboards, two Apple
> Designs and one Classic (god bless it, the best keyboard Apple ever
> produced, imho) and two cables - all of which work just fine on other
> machines. 

There is an prank/joke extension called NVwls (No Vowels) which will do this.
If you can't find it by that name, whoever put it on your system may have
changed the name and icon. Use Find File to look for something with it's
creator set to NVwl and you should catch it.


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Subject: Re: Keyboard mystery...
Date: 1997/05/13
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