Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!BINGVAXA!PDAVIS From: PDAVIS@BINGVAXA.BITNET (Phreadde) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.wp50-l Subject: the exit key Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 90 19:00:00 GMT Sender: WordPerfect Corporation Products Discussion List Reply-To: WordPerfect Corporation Products Discussion List Lines: 25 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM.BITNET Gateway Original_To: JNET%"wp50-l@ubvm" Original_cc: PDAVIS >From: BITNET%"MULLISH@NYUACF.BITNET" 13-FEB-1990 11:24:42.64 >To: Phreadde Davis , ADAM FARKASS >CC: >Subj: The Exit Key >It is a continual source of surprize to my students of WordPerfect that >everytime the program requires you to press F7, it tells you to press the >Exit key. The frequency with which this message appears is considerable. >Finally, one student (a PhD in math), quite exasperated by the fact that >he couldn't seem to remember this fact, asked the good question: If WordPerfect >means press F7 why the hell don't they say so! I ventured the opinion >that they reserved to themselves to change the key in the future but I was >much less convinced by the answer than he was. Remember that you can use WP on more machines than an IBM PC and that the F7 key is not present on all of them. Exit on the VAX is not at all the same. This way the directions are consistant and the key you press is determined by the machine you work on. I would say this is one part of WP that actually works well with the different platforms. __________________________________________________________________________ Phreadde-Janet Davis Bitnet: PDAVIS@BINGVAXA Academic Computing Staff Internet: pdavis@bingvaxu.cc.binhamton.edu State University of NY Binghamton, NY 13901 (607)777-6129 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------