Hallo Bernie!
>Nowdays I think the key is only there because it once was a key at
>that place.
The story i've heard is the following:
One of the first programs that made computers successful where
spreadsheets. In them you normally have a cell cursor that can be freely
moved round the visible area of the sheet. If you hit the screen edge
the sheet will probably scroll.
After hitting Scroll Lock the cursor would be fixed in the middle. When
hitting cursor keys, the entire sheet would move (i.e. scroll) away
under the fixed cursor.
This is the story i remember.
I just tried it with Lotus 1-2-3 97 and the 1-2-3 on a HP palmtop
(2.something for DOS), if you hit scroll lock it will scroll the entire
worksheet around, not the cursor. The cursor stays on the cell it is on.
It can be moved out of the screen in the windows version, in the palmtop
version it (only the cursor) will be held up at the screen ends.
And i have a program (a mailing software utility for QWK packets) that
will go into debug mode when scroll lock is active.
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Gunnar Th�le
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