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From: Paul Sture on 30 Jun 2010 08:19
In article <dorayme-BB41BF.17354029062010(a)news.albasani.net>,
dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> t wanted what Ian Gregory the Great supplied. It wanted also, to
> be fair, what nospam *nearly* supplied, namely "Option Command L".
>
> There is a lesson here, it need not be just a bunch of beings
> with nothing better to do than prattle on aimlessly:
>
> When giving keyboard commands use representations that look as
> much like the keys as possible, the name of the key concerned is
> "L" not "l". Look at the average Mac keyboard if you don't
> believe me.
>
> The key is *a different object* to the letter and so is its name
> different to the letter it causes to be printed.

It's actually a convention formed way back, when a lot of systems could
only speak in uppercase.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#ASCII_control_characters>

scroll down to the table, and you'll see that Control-C is represented
as ^C (in uppercase).

More on Control-C

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-C>

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Paul Sture
From: dorayme on 30 Jun 2010 18:43
In article <paul.nospam-BC8E5C.14070230062010(a)pbook.sture.ch>,
Paul Sture <paul.nospam(a)sture.ch> wrote:

> In article <dorayme-4E2700.17114328062010(a)news.albasani.net>,
> dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> > Is there a key command to get the downloads window to show up in
> > (at least) Tiger?
>
> In Safari:
>
> alt-command-l or option-command-l, whichever you prefer to call it.
>
> (my keyboard says "alt")

alt! I spit at your keyboard!

When a Jewish grandfather of a family I used to know came into a
room where a pig was on television, he would make like to spit on
the carpet. Long time ago. TV was new and I don't think they make
Jewish grandfathers like they used to these days.

(btw, is it my newsreader and service that is slow or are you not
reading the thread so far?)

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dorayme
From: Paul Sture on 2 Jul 2010 13:28
In article <dorayme-9DC3AC.08434601072010(a)news.albasani.net>,
dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> In article <paul.nospam-BC8E5C.14070230062010(a)pbook.sture.ch>,
> Paul Sture <paul.nospam(a)sture.ch> wrote:
>
> > In article <dorayme-4E2700.17114328062010(a)news.albasani.net>,
> > dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a key command to get the downloads window to show up in
> > > (at least) Tiger?
> >
> > In Safari:
> >
> > alt-command-l or option-command-l, whichever you prefer to call it.
> >
> > (my keyboard says "alt")
>
> alt! I spit at your keyboard!
>
> When a Jewish grandfather of a family I used to know came into a
> room where a pig was on television, he would make like to spit on
> the carpet. Long time ago. TV was new and I don't think they make
> Jewish grandfathers like they used to these days.
>
> (btw, is it my newsreader and service that is slow or are you not
> reading the thread so far?)

I came into the thread a bit late and answered your opening post before
I'd read the rest.

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Paul Sture
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