Re: reversed rollkeys

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>How many ways are roll keys reversed?  Is it automatic for you or your
>shop to change them or do most shops leave them as shipped?
>_______________________
>Booth Martin
>boothm@earth.goddard.edu
>http://www.spy.net/~booth


Talk about archives...  I just noticed this is from over a month ago, but
what the heck..


At work I've reversed my AS/400 keys so they are ROLL UP/DOWN keys, not
PAGE DOWN/UP keys.

I'm just ornery enough that I use my roll keys, and 'translate' when I'm at
someone else's keyboard, or using an Internet program (that doesn't have
any swap function).

I think the ROLL algorithm makes more sense than the PAGE algorithm.  Your
screen presents a single page out of a paper-towel roll of pages, displayed
in a window.

Pressing a ROLL key slides the paper up or down as your window stays put.

Pressing a PAGE key trucks your whole screen window down or up, as the
paper stays put.

It's a whole lot less effort to ROLL the paper up or down than it is to
move the whole screen up or down.

(:

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@Ix.netcom.com


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