I do recall that in VT220 emulation the Scroll Lock was used - to pause
long text files that weren't paged, but not sure if it ever did anything
similar in DOS.
On 30 November 2013 13:22, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> >> There appears to be no Alt code in Winders ...
> >> > alt230 important: with num-loc _ON_
> >> >
> >> > but you probably know this by now since I'm a Digester.
> >> > --
> >>
> >>
> >> Over all these years of using MS-DOS and Winders, I have yet to work out
> >> why there is a Num Lock.
> >>
> >
> >Num Lock - slightly useful, but Scroll Lock?
> >
>
> That's one that I have never figured out.
>
> BTW: On my laptop, <ALT+Fn> 230 yields the elusive µ. I don't have
> all of the extended characters, but there are enough to satisfy me most of
> the time.
>
>
> Chris
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