re: ANY key

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2 total messages Started by Jeff Jonas Sun, 07 Oct 1990 07:01

#5247

Author: Jeff Jonas
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 1990 07:01

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>> "press any key", she'd press Shift, Control, or Alt,
>> and then run to everyone complaining that the system
>> didn't work. Eventially everyone's become convinced that she's too dumb to
>> remember that 'any' key means the space bar, or use a computer in general,
>> which may have been her secret goal, since it reduced her workload. :)

>Little or no offence meant, but I think some of us have planks in our
>eyes...
>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

Pressing the shift/alt or other normally non-transmitting keys is
NOT a silly thing to do.  Before PCs, many terminals had a "screen saver"
that blanked the screen after some time of inactivity.
My Wyse terminal will go back to normal by pressing a SHIFT key.
That way, I don't transmit anything but start the timer again.

My PC has a screen saver.  It's waken up by pressing ANY key since
*ALL* keys on the PC keyboard transmit codes, even the CONTROL, ALT and shift.

Face it: your secretary was ahead of her times!

Jeffrey Jonas
jeffj@synsys.uucp

Re: ANY key

#5248

Author: meis... Michael Meissner
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 1990 02:44

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In article <421@synsys.UUCP> jeffj@synsys.UUCP (Jeff Jonas) writes:

| Pressing the shift/alt or other normally non-transmitting keys is
| NOT a silly thing to do.  Before PCs, many terminals had a "screen saver"
| that blanked the screen after some time of inactivity.
| My Wyse terminal will go back to normal by pressing a SHIFT key.
| That way, I don't transmit anything but start the timer again.

The same works for the default screen saver under X windows.
--
Michael Meissner	email: meis...@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142

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