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  3. July 2004

RE: Tortuous interface in Mapics DB...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapics-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / LeLeux@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 12:16 PM
>
<snip>
> As far as the F keys go, that was an IBM engineered deal, SAA. (Standard
> Application Architecture)  MAPICS followed it most of the time.  It's a
> good thing, and even Microsoft adopted it, as well as other developers.
>
> Standards are a good thing, following them - even better!

Yeah, but, F24 as a standard for Exit is a ... a ... very bad thing.

I'm not used to having to use both hands to exit, and I haven't mastered the
right-thumb-on-shift-and-right-middle-finger-on-F12 technique yet.

May push for earlier migration to XA!

db

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