MULLISH@NYUACF.BITNET (02/13/90)
It is a continual source of surprize to my students of WordPerfect that everytime the program requires you to press F7, it tells you to press the Exit key. The frequency with which this message appears is considerable. Finally, one student (a PhD in math), quite exasperated by the fact that he couldn't seem to remember this fact, asked the good question: If WordPerfect means press F7 why the hell don't they say so! I ventured the opinion that they reserved to themselves to change the key in the future but I was much less convinced by the answer than he was. Does anyone have any ideas? I'd sure like to hear them. Henry Mullish, NYU
PDAVIS@BINGVAXA.BITNET (Phreadde) (02/14/90)
>From: BITNET%"MULLISH@NYUACF.BITNET" 13-FEB-1990 11:24:42.64 >To: Phreadde Davis <PDAVIS@BINGVAXA.BITNET>, ADAM FARKASS <VY9166@BINGVAXA.B ITNET> >CC: >Subj: The Exit Key >It is a continual source of surprize to my students of WordPerfect that >everytime the program requires you to press F7, it tells you to press the >Exit key. The frequency with which this message appears is considerable. >Finally, one student (a PhD in math), quite exasperated by the fact that >he couldn't seem to remember this fact, asked the good question: If WordPerfect >means press F7 why the hell don't they say so! I ventured the opinion >that they reserved to themselves to change the key in the future but I was >much less convinced by the answer than he was. Remember that you can use WP on more machines than an IBM PC and that the F7 key is not present on all of them. Exit on the VAX is not at all the same. This way the directions are consistant and the key you press is determined by the machine you work on. I would say this is one part of WP that actually works well with the different platforms. __________________________________________________________________________ Phreadde-Janet Davis Bitnet: PDAVIS@BINGVAXA Academic Computing Staff Internet: pdavis@bingvaxu.cc.binhamton.edu State University of NY Binghamton, NY 13901 (607)777-6129 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
BILLP@IDUI1.BITNET (Bill Pyle) (02/14/90)
Those of us who live in the IBM (compatible) world sometimes think ours is the only way to live. WordPerfect is available for many different machines. The F7 key is not necessarily the Exit key on every machine. For example, the DEC Rainbow 100s used in a lab on our campus use a Shift-F11 for Exit. Why, I don't know. Basically, WordPerfect Corp. is saying, press the Exit key, which ever key that might be. Since you can redefine your keyboard to have any layout you want, I don't think someone would like to be told to press the F7 key when the Exit key is assigned to the Esc key, for example.