dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) (02/20/91)
lrogers@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Larry Rogers) writes: > We have several Macs without mice. Could some kind soul send me the >keyboard equivalent for doing things like selecting a disk, opeining a folder, >and opening one of several file. Macs without mice!!! Gosh Larry that's like, I don't know, running PC's without 640K limits, Unix without a keyboard, or ... 8) 8) Seriously though, I've always wished one had more of a choice to mouse or not to mouse with a Mac and having to use the mouse to open files and folders and select disks in the Finder is sometimes a drag. The only option you have (without some kind of special utility add-on) is to use mouse keys. Look in your mac manual for an explanation of how to use mouse keys. In case the guy who sold you your mac wasn't able to get a manual either ;-) the way you use mouse keys is to hit command-shift and clear (on the keypad); after that the keypad keys held down will move and click the mouse as follows: 4 and 6 move it left and right, 8 and 2 up and down, and 5 clicks it. Another possibility for mouseless access is to do something like define a QuicKey for transfer and then use Boomerang in its mouseless mode to access files and disks in the standard file dialog box. I'm sure others could come up with their favorite kluge for this too, but the only official Apple way would be mouse keys (and there are those of us who say that's a pretty klugy way to go too). Or, hey, better yet, get a mouse! -- Dana E. Keil Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley dana@are.berkeley.edu
john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III) (02/24/91)
> lrogers@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Larry Rogers) writes: > We have several Macs without mice. Could some kind soul send me the > keyboard equivalent for doing things like selecting a disk, opeining a > folder, and opening one of several file. Use "EasyAccess". It is included with your Mac system software. Check you Mac manual to see how to use it. Easy Access was designed to allow handy capable users to work with a Mac without a mouse. -john- -- =============================================================================== John A. Weeks III (612) 942-6969 john@newave.mn.org NeWave Communications ...uunet!rosevax!tcnet!wd0gol!newave!john ===============================================================================