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Dominic says>
}>Hey, who are you accusing of stupidity?  ``Press any key'' means ``Press
}>ANY key''.  This person was quite right to complain that she'd been lied
}>to by programmers who should have known better, but who had allowed the
}>fact that they had a well-formed mental model of the way that computers
}>operate to prevent them from realising the large majority of the
}>population posesses no such model.
}
}>Dumb (or at least thoughtless) programmers, say I, not dumb users.
}>A smart programmer would have anticipated this problem, and ensured that
}>it didn't arise in the first place.
}>-- 
}>Dominic Dunlop
}

The problem is with the shift/control keys. On a project I wrote under
QNX that had to run on both the console and terminals I put in the
usual 'press any key'. However if I was running on the console I would
look for the alt/control/shift key and pop up a message saying something
like "try a different key!"...

ahhh, the good old days when you could do stuff like that  :-)

bob