name@Portia.Stanford.EDU (tony cooper) (02/03/89)
When I try to use FKEY 0 I get a system error 03 (illegal instruction). This is on a Mac II running 6.0.2 straight off the Apple distribution. Ie no FKEY 0 is installed, no non Apple INITs etc. The other FKEYs work as they should ie 1 ejects the floppy, 3 and 4 do whatever they do (nothing for me), and the rest just do nothing. Installing a FKEY 0 doesn't help. The same error occurs. Using Suitcase II to pseudo install FKEY 0 doesn't work - same error. To use FKEY 0 I have to use it from the Suitcase menu - not from the keyboard. All the other keyboard FKEYs work fine from Suitcase. I once had Switcheroo installed as FKEY 0 and it worked fine till this problem developed. Something has happened to FKEY 0 and it occurs regardless of which system I boot with. This suggests that the PRAM might be corrupted since that is the only way I know that problems can survive reboots. PRAM INITs do not solve the problem. This one has me baffled. Tony
petec@nikhefk.UUCP (Pete Countryman) (02/03/89)
I once had a problem with FKEY 0 bombing, and it happened only when I was in the Finder. It turned out that a Shareware application on my disk had the Creator signature set to FKEY. This put a resource of type FKEY into the Desktop file on the disk, with ID=0. The Desktop file is always open when you're in the Finder. Since the Desktop file was opened _after_ the System file, this meant that pressing cmd-shft-0 made the Mac try to execute the contents of the bogus FKEY resource. Re-building the Desktop obviously doesn't fix this. You should a) trash the offending application; b) change the Creator type of the application or c) turn off the BNDL bit for the application. Then re-build the Desktop file.