Re: Copy/Paste

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think that goes all the way back to the character based Wordstar 
program.  Ran under DOS was fast and once you learned all the key 
combinations was really powerful.  WordPerfect came along and killed 
WordStar, along with IBMs Display Writer.  Then M$Word go to version two 
and it was all over but the crying......

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 8/4/2011 9:52 AM, Jerry C. Adams wrote:
> Out of curiosity does anyone know who's bright idea it was to make C and V
> (along with Ctrl) the Copy and Paste keys?  Okay, the C I understand, but
> why V?  P was obviously taken by 'Print' but V doesn't make any sense.  For
> about the fourth time today (and uncounted times in the past) I have
> fat-fingered the Ctrl-C when I meant to paste.
>
>
>
> Jerry C. Adams
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