Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!brunix!rca From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Low End NeXTs (was Re: Desktop publishing) Message-ID: <71373@brunix.UUCP> Date: 9 Apr 91 08:58:25 GMT References: <1991Apr3.192844.27708@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1462@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <1991Apr8.225901.12473@mp.cs.niu.edu> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 16 In article <1991Apr8.225901.12473@mp.cs.niu.edu> bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) writes: > Hmm... I don't think "correct" is really applicable to the old >keyboard either, given the placement of the tilde over the numeric >keypad. I'd rather see *both* versions replaced by one that looks >like the old one with deficiencies (like the tilde location) fixed. >*That* would be the "correct" one as far as I can see. In case you haven't realized: the ~-character can be accessed with shift-ESC. Thus the old keyboard is relatively correct. Maybe this should be put in the FAQ-sheet. Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." G.B. Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet