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Article #3722Re: Stupid Users
From: kl... Klaus Ole Kristiansen
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 1990 08:30
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 1990 08:30
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d...@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (David Anderson) writes: }In article <10353@stiatl.UUCP> tok@stiatl.UUCP (Terry Kane) writes: }> }>How about a user, confronted by a typical "press any key" message, }>calling tech support complaining... }> }> But I don't have an ANY key on my keyboard! }> }>-- }Yes! I've had a user complain about not having an 'ANY' key. }So, I said to her "Pick a key .. any key you like!" }She pressed the SHIFT key ... and (you guessed it) nothing happened. }I had to then try and explain to her why she couldn't use the }SHIFT , CTRL and CAPS LOCK keys. You told her "Pick a key .. any key you like!", and she picked the wrong key? How very stupid of her! :-) If the program prompts "Press any key", and then don't accept ANY key, it is a bug. BTW, would the program accept accent or umlaud (or trema)? Klaus Kristiansen
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!freja.diku.dk!klaus From: kl...@diku.dk (Klaus Ole Kristiansen) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Stupid Users Message-ID: <1990Aug15.083047.22642@diku.dk> Date: 15 Aug 90 08:30:47 GMT References: <6889@helios.TAMU.EDU> <10353@stiatl.UUCP> <4553@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <58926@bbn.BBN.COM> Organization: Department Of Computer Science, University Of Copenhagen Lines: 29 Posted: Wed Aug 15 09:30:47 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit