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From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Scroll lock (maybe a dumb question)
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.184154.8248@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 22 Mar 91 18:41:54 GMT
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In article <1991Mar22.011729.4929@news.iastate.edu>
  tabu6@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes:
>Actually, Lotus 1-2-3's scrolling manner changes when you have scroll lock
>on/off, ie, it is possible to sense whether scroll lock is on or off, but
>nobody ever did anything with it (because it was a lame idea, thanks, Big Blue)

Actually, it's not such a lame idea.  It's just that IBM, in their infinite
wisdom, realized that it made better sense to assign the "scroll lock" function
to the CTRL/NUMLOCK sequence.  Can't you see the logic in that?


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