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From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Re: How do you tell users to press RETURN every so often?
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Date: Tue, 6-Dec-83 18:09:51 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  6 18:09:51 1983
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	What wonders me in this discussion (though I appreciate the replies
	that suggest to read everything is CBREAK mode), is that no one
	came up with the answer `suggest a TYPEWRITER as model'.  Surely
	this kind of apparatus and its use are known to most people, and
	surely on a typewriter you have to watch out for the end of the line!

Another objection here is that RETURN does not mean the same thing on a
typewriter as on a terminal, or at least it is not used the same way.
For one thing, it is also a continuation mark -- you use it when you're
typing a paragraph that does not fit on one line.  For another thing,
if you're using the typewriter to fill out a printed form, you may well find
yourself directly positioning the "cursor" by grabbing the carriage and
moving it, which may be a much easier operation since you can move in two
dimensions.  And answering a prompt is somewhat analogous to filling out a form.

This point about RETURN not meaning the same thing, and other false analogies,
were covered in a paper presented at the Human Factors in Computer Systems
conference (NBS and ACM SIGCHI, I believe) in March 1982, but I can't
remember the author(s) to give proper credit.