Reminds me of a coworker at an insurance company in Ohio I worked at a couple times. He'd write down a list of user IDs on a scrap of paper, walk the paper back to my desk and ask me to investigate some aspect of them. As this kept happening, I started asking him why he didn't just forward the original email rather than writing down the IDs and then making me enter them into my terminal again. I think it was just his habit.
Finally I put my foot now: Not accepting any more scraps of paper. Send me the email! He did it, too. Maybe he was just old-fashioned. Maybe he still is. When I first started reading the reasons we should all adopt Windows, two of the reasons didn't impress me. One was the "consistent user interface". I'd been using WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, Harvard Graphics etc, and of course the mainframe, and I didn't see any difficulty about using <PF3> for END on one and <F3> for "find again" in another. I still don't. Consistent interface is fine, but it's not a necessity in my view. The other reason was the ability to cut and paste between different applications. I was contemptuous: How hard does it have to be to type out a phone number a second time? Big deal. Boy, was I wrong about that! --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying "Fear not". The Victorian angel looks as if it were going to say "There, there". -C S Lewis, from a preface to _The Screwtape Letters_ */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, April 17, 2023 12:57 I've been a link down that chain, and irritated when users provided diagnostics as image screenshots rather than text. The emulator popular with them provided image as default; text as an option, but the setup was obscure. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
