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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Scroll lock (maybe a dumb question)
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 02:34:29 GMT
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>Ok-- I got a quick E-mail response on this-- here is also another response 
>somewhere before this on the board.  Scroll lock has something to do with
>the scrolling of the original Lotus Windows.  Whoop dee doo.  
>In other words, I may have been missing the boat-- but not on scroll lock.


Lotus Windows huh? Well, true, it changes that. (cursor 
remains in the same spot, spreadsheet scrolls by it in-
stead of the other way around. Took me an hour to figure 
it out the first time I did it by mistake.) But other 
programs make use of it too. NCSA Telnet uses it to toggle
to a scrollback mode (hit scrlk, then uparrow). FansiCon-
sole has a switch that allows you to use it as a one 
button (HAHAHAHAHA) scroll lock, relacing ctrl-S crtrl-Q.

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