Re: press any key

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From: h... Henry Troup
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 1990 14:11

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In article <1990Sep21....@csis.dit.csiro.au> k...@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap) writes:
>	Press space bar to continue
>
>Now if the user doesn't know what the space bar is, then you have a problem.

Back when I did that sort of software, I used that prompt and accepted
'any' key.  This of course means anything the OS doesn't steal.


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