You can probably expect that everybody who has entered a not in this thread will volunteer for that mission. Count me in.
Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Jones Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 9:31 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: OT: Cursed "Scroll Lock" key vs 3270 emulators If Chuckie's busy that day, I'll come along instead......:-) Case sensitive operating systems, sheesh.... DJ Phil Smith III wrote: > Mike Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> went on at length about the > Scroll Lock key: <snip>...visual indicator icon that appears in the > right-most XP tray > >> (System tray?; can't ever remember the windows tray names > > > Formerly "System Tray", now "Notification Area", IIRC. Not an > improvement in the name. > > And: > >> They try to squeeze more keys on the keyboard but won't get rid of >> this one, which as far as I know has not been used since DOS days >> gone by. > > > A few things still use it: Excel changes behavior, and as DavidK > noted, some hardware KVMs use it for switching. > > 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. 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... > > 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? > > > ...phsiii
