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From: dth@cs.brown.edu (Dzung T. Hoang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Scroll lock (maybe a dumb question)
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Date: 22 Mar 91 22:09:06 GMT
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In article <40442@cup.portal.com> CTuna@cup.portal.com (Don S Gladden) writes:
>I'm just curious-- in my four years of PC usage, I have never found a use
>for the scroll lock key.  Are they just a leftover from mainframe days or is
>there a legitimate use for them?  Have I been missing the boat these past four
>years?  
>
>Heh...  I'm glad SOMEBODY asked about that before me..  it has been bugging
>me, too!  Anyone ?????

There is a TSR that exists just to make the SCROLL LOCK key useful.
It is called SCROLOCK or something similar.  Anyway, the TSR lets you
use the key to (guessed it yet?) pause the screen before scrolling
begins, if the scroll lock light is on, of course.  This is useful for
viewing a long directory, for instance.  The program is pretty smart
about when to pause the screen, but I have found no need for it, so
it's no longer in my system.  I believe it was posted to
comp.binaries.ibm.pc some time ago.  If not, it should be at
simtel.arpa.

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