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Re: What's that thing in the top right corner??

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From: Brian Kendig
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1989 18:04
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In article <SAAF.89Aug21130332@joker.optics.rochester.edu> saaf@joker.optics.rochester.edu (Lenny Saaf) writes:
>I've just noticed a strange looking "icon" in the upper right corner
>of our Macs (two Pluses and a II).  It is located just to the right of
>the small icon indicating the present application running under Multifinder.
>It looks like a square "U." Successive hits on the shift key makes
>it appear.  Another shift causes a downward-pointing arrow to appear.
>It sometimes appears with the "U" filled in.  I thought it might be an
>undoccumented feature of MS Word, but it happens in VersaTerm also.
>Any clues?

::sigh:: All right, all together now:

  E A S Y   A C C E S S !

Easy Access is an INIT that supposedly makes it easier for disabled people
to use the Mac keyboard.  Hitting Shift rapidly five times in succession
toggles it on and off.

I won't bother to go into detail here.  If you are interested, read about it
in the Macintosh System Software User's Guide (version 6.0) that comes with the
Mac.  If you're not interested, remove the INIT from your System Folder, and
all will be back to normal.

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| Brian S. Kendig       |  I feel more like I   | bskendig                   |
| Computer Engineering  |  did when I got here  | @phoenix.Princeton.EDU     |
| Princeton University  |       than I do now.  | @PUCC.BITNET               |
| Systems Engineering, NASA Space Station Freedom / General Electric WP3     |
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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What's that thing in the top right corner??
Summary: It's a bird, it's a plane... no, it's Easy Access!
Message-ID: <10027@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 21 Aug 89 18:04:49 GMT
References: <SAAF.89Aug21130332@joker.optics.rochester.edu>
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