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lastas
Profile Joined May 2003
Sweden1219 Posts
April 13 2004 05:23 GMT
#1
What does the damned button do?
gg
Programmer
Profile Joined February 2004
Canada250 Posts
April 13 2004 05:25 GMT
#2
"Scroll Lock" is a legacy from the early days of DOS (DOS 2.1 - 1982) when pressing that key stopped the rollover on the screen enabling to view lists longer than 25 lines in a way resembling the "More" command..
Today it survives because that key has special meaning for dedicated applications that use it as a special "function key" no more related to its original purpose.
Ceril
Profile Joined April 2003
Sweden1343 Posts
April 13 2004 05:25 GMT
#3
It is an ancient remain from the days when there was no windows?
Just because you can now store where everyone was and is, what they like, what they fear who they talk to and who they love. It does not mean we should so spy upon our fellow man in a dystopia far worse then 1984
Ceril
Profile Joined April 2003
Sweden1343 Posts
April 13 2004 05:26 GMT
#4
On April 13 2004 14:25 Programmer wrote:
"Scroll Lock" is a legacy from the early days of DOS (DOS 2.1 - 1982) when pressing that key stopped the rollover on the screen enabling to view lists longer than 25 lines in a way resembling the "More" command..
Today it survives because that key has special meaning for dedicated applications that use it as a special "function key" no more related to its original purpose.


Correct :-)
Just because you can now store where everyone was and is, what they like, what they fear who they talk to and who they love. It does not mean we should so spy upon our fellow man in a dystopia far worse then 1984
lastas
Profile Joined May 2003
Sweden1219 Posts
April 13 2004 05:27 GMT
#5
ok.. is there any use at all in windows, it even has its own light and all..
gg
Programmer
Profile Joined February 2004
Canada250 Posts
Last Edited: 2004-04-13 08:54:51
April 13 2004 05:35 GMT
#6
One relatively modern Windows application that does use the Scroll Lock key is Microsoft Excel. In this program, when Scroll Lock is on, the behavior of the arrow keys is modified in order to allow you to scroll the contents of the window. There are really more uses of this key with other OS's though... For example, in Linux command line sessions, the Scroll Lock key is used to pause screen output and in FreeBSD and other BSD descendants Scroll Lock still functions similarly to IBM's original design.
fbs
Profile Joined February 2003
United Kingdom2476 Posts
April 13 2004 05:40 GMT
#7
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Programmer
Profile Joined February 2004
Canada250 Posts
Last Edited: 2004-04-13 06:00:20
April 13 2004 05:43 GMT
#8
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Sirakor
Profile Joined April 2003
Great Britain455 Posts
April 13 2004 06:05 GMT
#9
On April 13 2004 14:27 lastas wrote:
ok.. is there any use at all in windows, it even has its own light and all..


no use in windows whatsoever, unless u or a program that u use manually binds something useful to that key.
lastas
Profile Joined May 2003
Sweden1219 Posts
April 13 2004 07:03 GMT
#10
Programmer, thanks for all the info. ^^
gg
Programmer
Profile Joined February 2004
Canada250 Posts
April 13 2004 07:04 GMT
#11
No problem, I'm here to help
Verbloten
Profile Joined October 2003
Australia750 Posts
April 13 2004 07:14 GMT
#12
Programmer - you are gosu IT dude! lol GW
Kacas
Profile Joined July 2003
Brazil3143 Posts
April 13 2004 08:33 GMT
#13
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I Love Hyori Lee =* icq: 41760400 / msn: kayen_chn at hotm
OgerDaniel
Profile Joined March 2003
273 Posts
April 13 2004 08:42 GMT
#14
wow, that's like a "keyboard-appendix"
SoMuchBetter
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia10606 Posts
April 13 2004 09:28 GMT
#15
what does the turbo key do?
AUSSIESCUM
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Programmer
Profile Joined February 2004
Canada250 Posts
April 13 2004 10:10 GMT
#16
Pressing Turbo + F1-F7 adjusts your cursor speed for backspacing, deleting and using the arrow keys between 2.5 CPS to 40 CPS (Characters Per Second)
VdP]EpiphaNy
Profile Joined March 2004
United Kingdom992 Posts
April 13 2004 10:29 GMT
#17
Programmer, what is the meaning of life?
Reach - I love protoss because its tough and straight. Its a race for the men
FrEaK[S.sIR]
Profile Joined October 2002
2373 Posts
April 13 2004 11:16 GMT
#18
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mrmin123 *
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Korea (South)2971 Posts
April 13 2004 11:49 GMT
#19
Programmer, why does the Print Screen button also have SysRq under it???
Translator태양은 묘지위에 붉게 떠오르고 / 한낮에 찌는 더위는 나의 시련 일찌라!
LTT
Profile Blog Joined March 2003
Shakuras1095 Posts
April 13 2004 12:47 GMT
#20
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mscrolllock.html :x

Also answers the SysRq question.
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