Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!mcnc!taco!garcia.warfield.edu!wpmadden From: wpmadden@garcia.warfield.edu (Bill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: HP-48 TEXT Keywords: usr keys Message-ID: <1991Jun14.132310.6621@ncsu.edu> Date: 14 Jun 91 13:23:10 GMT References: <1991Jun10.063838.20847@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <4254@uc.msc.umn.edu> <28548840:3419.4comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: wpmadden@eos.ncsu.edu Organization: Techno-Geeks Inc. Lines: 36 -- about ALPHA lock and the like, I tried using the ALPHA lock flag for a while but this got to be a pain when entering algebraics or the like, so I now usually do what Ruedi (akcs.vsteiger@hpcvbbs.UUCP) said. I am also left-handed and I hold down the ALPHA key and type with my right for small alpha-num entries. Also I have the following im my user key list: ... " " 54.4 " " 54.5 "" 65.4 ... I find this a nice typing aid when in ALPHA shift mode. When in ALPHA shift mode, the key becomes a key, the become a `tab', just really five spaces :^> and the key becomes a Though you cannot use delete or type a ! or / while in usr mode, I find these locations very useful when typing longer strings or algebraics. Bill -- Wm P. Madden, Jr. Dept. of Electrical Engineering North Carolina State University - Raleigh, N.C. INTERNET: wpmadden@eos.ncsu.edu Ma AT@T: (919) 781-6390 madden@eceugs.ece.ncsu.edu Bill.Madden@bbs.oit.unc.edu "Pi is equal to 3, for small values of Pi and large values of 3" "So naturally, I don't have to tell you that one never snaps one's fingers on the beat...it's considered agressive. Never push it, just let it fall on the afterbeat, thus." Duke Ellington