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  • Subject: Re: A really odd thing
  • From: DAsmussen <DAsmussen@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 21:59:01 EST
  • Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com)

Art,

In a message dated 98-01-09 13:05:00 EST, you write:

> DAsmussen wrote:
>  
>  > I believe the "O" key is missing (someone didn't want to have a program
KO'd?
>  > I never understood the omission).  Using response indicators on your DDS
>  > function keys will allow you to avoid INK, but this can be a problem on a
busy
>  > screen with a lot of indicators already used.
<<snip>>
>  
>  I think that was to eliminate confusion between O and zero.
>  
>  Not that INKV isn't confusing.

I know, and you are the second person to mention this reason.  Unfortunately,
there _IS_ no INKzero, so I'm not buying this lame excuse from IBM.

Regards!

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
-- Aristotle
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