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- From: ian@eonsw.demon.co.uk (Ian Leonard)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Message-ID: <BxMFry.20I@eonsw.demon.co.uk>
- Organization: EON Software, Oxford, UK
- References: <sherman.7229094@foster> <BxGu2H.A62@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1992Nov10.212013.6590@avernus.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:02:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.212013.6590@avernus.com> mgfrank@avernus.com (Marc G. Frank) writes:
- >In article <BxGu2H.A62@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
- >
- >>Why don't Unix "tools" have a convention about help and exit keys AT THE
- >>VERY LEAST.
-
- Like the F1 = Help and F10 = Exit (with the exception of Wordperfect)?
- Probably because it's a stupid convention. Can somebody tell me why,
- when IBM were searching for the ultimate user friendly keyboard, didn't
- they put a HELP key on it. Why does it have an ESC key? To confuse poor
- DOS programmers when they try to port to Unix? Why did someone pick
- one of the handiest keys (F1) and use it for one of the most least
- used functions (HELP) while burying the EXIT key (F10)? Have you ever
- seen a genuine VT100 keyboard? It'll put you off function keys for life.
-
- Unix tools predate the AT keyboard. Many old keyboards didn't have
- function keys.
-
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- Ian
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- Ian Leonard ian@eonsw.demon.co.uk
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