From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 16:35:08 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] terminal - just for fun In-Reply-To: References: <53db573b.rwfkVi3XCkWueUYL%dnied@tiscali.it> <20140801105029.58656ubc05nkkh2d@webmail.mhorton.net> Message-ID: <20140801203508.GF13476@mercury.ccil.org> Dave Horsfall scripsit: > Personally I've yet to think of a single use for Caps Lock and Num Lock. It was essential in the transition period when keyboards had acquired upper and lower case but operating systems only understood upper case. Since then it has been nothing but a nuisance. > Whenever I get stuck with a M$ keyboard (which seems to be most of them) I > prise off a few irritating keys so that I don't hit the poxy things by > mistake. The echt-MS keyboard I am using right now under Windows 7 has a driver that lets me disable Caps Lock, and so I have done. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org We do, doodley do, doodley do, doodley do, What we must, muddily must, muddily must, muddily must; Muddily do, muddily do, muddily do, muddily do, Until we bust, bodily bust, bodily bust, bodily bust. --Bokonon