Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxl!seifert From: seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert) Newsgroups: net.cog-eng Subject: Re: Keyboard preferences -- (discussion of VT220) Message-ID: <880@ihuxl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 09:17:20 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxl.880 Posted: Thu Feb 2 09:17:20 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 15:05:23 EST References: <284@denelcor.UUCP> <348@sask.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 20 > UNFORTUNATELY, typewriters are a bit different than this. *Which* typewriters are you referring to? Remember, all typewriters don't have the same keyboard either! Some have the digit '1', some leave it out and you have to make do with 'l' (lower case 'L'). Manuals (as in non-electric) don't have a 'return' key, they have a *lever* that performs the CR-LF function. Some have fraction characters, e.g. things like 1/2 and 1/4 are a single character. Some have a few keys that you can change to get special language/math symbols. (not to mention the kind with the replacable ball) And so on, and so on... -- _____ /_____\ from the flying doghouse of /_______\ Snoopy |___| ____|___|_____ ihnp4!ihuxl!seifert