Word: cursors
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...leaned forward in my chair, a trembling hand outstretched, an insistent question broke through my reverie: "Is everything clear?" "Right you are," I answered smartly. "The new version will be on your desk this afternoon." Back in my office, though, it was hard to concentrate. The little cursor on the blank computer screen blinked incessantly, like an accusing Cyclops. I felt like Sisyphus, endlessly, futilely pushing a rock up a hill. Oh, that I were Nabu, the Mesopotamian god of writing and destiny, whose powers could alter the days allotted to men in this life...
...zone, is said to be fascinated by the new system. So is the Drug Enforcement Administration, which desperately seeks to know the identity of every aircraft entering U.S. airspace, especially those from the south. They are particularly impressed with an FAA feature that allows controllers to place an electronic cursor over an individual blip, press a key and see all the available aircraft data displayed on the screen. Any blip that fails to provide information has not registered a flight plan with the FAA and may be fair game for interception...
...commander reads the directory and displays all of the files in the right hand corner of the screen. The user can use the arrow keys to move the cursor from one file to another. Upon selecting a file, the user then hits one of several function keys to perform a given function such as listing, running program, or printing out the file...
...word (once-its-there-you-never-have-to-type-it-again) processor? Not really. Rather, the Hacker is suggesting that by occasionally retyping a paper from scratch, the writer is forced to reconsider every word and sentence in a much more active way than simply by dragging a cursor across...
...filed during the previous 24 hours. Another command can call up the text of a story, which is then seen on the screen in segments of up to 31 lines at a time. As the editor electronically rolls the story forward, he can maneuver a lighted blip called a "cursor" to make changes in the copy. If he wants to revise a paragraph, he presses buttons that tell the cursor to remove that block of text. Then he types in his own version on the screen. The edited story is returned to the computer and sent to subscribing papers...