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From: alastair@geovision.UUCP (Alastair Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes
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Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 10:48:06 EST
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Summary: More on two close keys with different meanings..

Rich Pattis mentions an editor with the adjacent keys, 'W' and 'E' having
totally different meanings (write vs exit).  I've got one a little
closer to home for Unix users.    Take a look at where the 'X' and 'C'
keys are on the keyboard, and consider what those letters (as flags)
mean to 'tar(1)'.   I only screwed it up once, on a 2.5 Meg disk
cartridge.... (sigh)
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 Alastair JW Mayer     BIX: al
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"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."