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Re: Accept tabs on logon screen

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Tue Nov 17 11:03:52 1998

Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:03:48 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199811162101.QAA05355@saarinen.mit.edu>

I'm really glad someone else said this, because I've been thinking since
March that I was overly picky.

-todd

On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Thomas H. Grayson wrote:

> Could you please alter the behavior of the Athena logon screen so that
> a tab is also a valid way to move from the username to the password field?
> Such behavior would be consistent with the PC and Mac operating systems
> that are in widespread use on campus.  In those operating systems,
> you would expect to hit the return key only after entering both fields.
> On Athena, you MUST use the return key to move from one field to the
> next.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom Grayson


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