RE: Xy III & Faulty Memory?--original thread!

["Tom Robertson" t-r@xxxxxxxx]

Andy Glass told me about using the Tab key as a Shift key and I have done so
for more than fifteen years and more than 300 folks I set up with the
program

Back when IBM was messing with Signature, I tried to find out who developed
the keyboard layout. There was no one I could find.

Tim, did you ever hear of such a person?

TR...

> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: Xy III & Faulty Memory?--original thread!
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>
> Happily, Xy4 can be set up to emulate XyIII (tho you lose some
> functionality).
> I've found that the CUA we implemented for Signature (and hence
> Xy4) at IBM's
> behest has been to my advantage. I use several programs, and it's handy to
> have Xy4 mostly keystroke-compatible and menu-compatible with
> Windows programs
> -- even tho some things could have been better implemented all around. (In
> XyIII I had F4 as a shift key, and could mark text intuitively
> with F4 + S for
> sentence, W for word, L for line, G for paraGraph, and so on. The
> F keys were,
> of course, on the left where God intended them to be :-)
>
> Tim Baehr
> tbaehr@xxxxxxxx
>
> No quote, but only out of laziness.
>