#Keyboards and Icons
30-Jun-88 23:48:05
Sb: #132649-#Keyboards and Icons
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: GreG Tsadilas/SYSOP 73270,3574
Greg,
The same way someone recognizes that an upside down 'L' with the
arrow facing left and enclosed in a red circle with a red diagonal slash
means 'No Left Turn'. Or that a Hexagonal Red sign on the corner of an
intersection with some letters in it in white means 'Stop'.
The use of 'universal' symbols transcends written words.
I can't draw what I want very well with the symbols available here on
CIS, but let me try one and see if you can figure out what it means:
+——+ +——|\
| | | |
| |—-> | |
| | | |
+——+ +——–+
(The symbol on the left has 4 rounded corners, the symbol on the
right has 3 square corners and one 'folded' corner)
This symbol is on a keycap on a terminal. Whatcha think it means?
Don