User Guide

Desktop file. Answer “Yes” and your desktop file will be
rebuilt and you won’t see those pesky names any more.
I’m running Macintosh System 7 and suddenly some of
the keystrokes I used to type in System 6 to get
characters in the upper 128 range don’t work any
more. Why did this happen?
Apple has changed the keyboard mapping in System 7.
The advantage to the System 7 mapping is that there are
now four new characters that are accessible from the
keyboard and some of the other characters are more
logically accessible. There are three things you can do:
1. Learn the new keypresses so you’ll know what to
type when you need these characters;
2. Apple has a KCHR resource called “oldUS” which
can be used with System 7 to emulate the old
keyboard mapping. You should be able to download
this resource, and instructions for its use, from
CompuServe or America Online. If you have
CompuServe GO MACBVEN, choose Data
Library #3 (Altsys) and download the file named
SY7KCH.SIT. If you have America Online, type
Command-k and enter the name Altsys in the dialog,
then open the “Fonts and Demos” library and choose
the file called “System 7 Keyboard Remap.”
3. Upgrade to System 7.1 which comes with the
System 6 keyboard mapping as an easily changed
option in the Finder. Below is a chart that diagrams
the changes to the keyboard which appeared when
System 7 was released. The “S” character stands
for Shift, the “O” character stands for Option. Hold
down either the Shift and/or Option key while typing
the next character in the sequence. In sequences
like O-i-S-a, hold down the Option key, then press
the “i” key, let up on both, then hold down the Shift
key, and press the a key, finally letting up on both.
Ignore the hyphens and the ampersands. See Part II
of Using Fontographer on Your Macintosh for
more information on KCHRs .
Char Deci Hex System 6.0.7 System 7.0
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