On Friday, 06/16/2006 at 09:58 AST, Phil Smith III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But this gets me off on one of my rants: when I finish my time machine, I'm > going to go back, find whoever created each of the two or three hundred 3270 > emulators out there, and (a) make sure they PAY ATTENTION to the real 3270 > keyboard and by default emulate that -- and that they do it all the same.
(yawn) Which real 3270 keyboard? German? UK? French? Icelandic? Spanish? Italian? (yawn..sorry) Belgian? Portuguese? (No one speaks with precision any more, dammit ....that's what's wrong with this country! Oh, and the use of vegetable oil in deep fryers instead of lard. And the lack of quality toasters.) > And > that all the keys are remappable. I once (17 years ago) spent a week at a > customer site working on an issue that required two sessions. Emulators back > then were single-session, so he had two emulator cards (remember them?) in his > PC. One used the ENTER key for ENTER; one used the right CTRL key. And they > weren't remappable. I think I burned out a statistically significant portion > of my brain that week, hitting the wrong key and waiting for something to > happen... Uphill. Both ways. Got it. When you go into a stranger's house, the first question is always "Where can I dump a kidney?" Likewise, when you use an alien emulator config (i.e. not yours), the first question is always "Where's the ENTER key? Why did you put THERE? Are you crazy?" (OK, so that was, like, 3 questions...move along....) > When I get that fixed, I'm also going to find whoever decided *ix should be > case-sensitive and cure him. Chuckie, you wanna come help? I hate mixed-case userids. I LIkE mIxeD-CaSe pASsWoRDs, THoUGh. It makes setting your password to "pASsWoRD" far more defensible. -- C.
