insert key for Midnight Commander on os x == ctr-T

I started with ZX-81 but learned MS-DOS when it came a few(!) years later. As part of the fidonet and BBS scene I handled alot with files, I mean a lot… Back then we used Norton Commander, a piece of software that was soo smart, soo feature rich and soo well written. As we all know, DOS got a graphic UI on top of it and today the fork is called Vista.

Anyway, long post to just say that ctrl-T is the equivalent to the insert key on a Mac keyboard, atleast in Midnight Commander.

 

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November 8th, 2008 in Computerstuff, English | tags:
  • http://blog.xceed.be Theo Heselmans

    In Vista/BootCamp on a Mac, it’s fn-enter.
    Very useful for switching a document ‘read/unread’ flag in Notes.

  • http://www.dominoExperts.com Tomas Nielsen

    I never had the ZX-81 but the following ZX Spectrum. Your post really got me down memorabilia lane! Ah! I still remember the Z80 assembly mnemonics!
    I had a period when I was 14 when I sometimes dreamt in assembler. How geeky is that? ;-)

  • Joachim Dagerot

    Theo: Thanks for that, add all the keyboard shortcuts for textmate and Photoshop on top of our ctrl-T an fn-enter and atleast my brain i slowly boiling over….

    Tomas: Yes, those were really the time. It was you and the hardware, no VM or cryptic interpretator in between that always just complicated thing. I know you’ve running across alot of systems; These are mine (at home): ZX-81, VIC-20, C64, Amiga500, PC 8086, 8088 and 80286. Then 80486 dx2 and dx4 overdrive. Pentium and whatever they are called these days. Is duocore the processor name? Good thing is that hardware is not that important anymore, gamers uncounted….

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