[HowTo] Press any key

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Difficulty: ☆☆☆☆☆

Sometimes when you’re running a program on a TTY or in a shell, you run across the dreaded:

  • Press any key...
  • Press any key to continue...
  • Press any key to exit.

So, what should you do???

  1. If you have the IBM Model M 105 keyboard, it comes with an ANY key:

    Any Key
    Any Key700×490 60.8 KB

    Use that key! :grin:

  2. On this example keyboard:
    Esc F1F2F3F4  F5F6F7F8  F9F10F11F12  PrtSclPse
    `1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - =  Bksp  Ins HmePgUp
    TabQ W E R T Y U I O P [ ] Entr Del EndPgDn
    Caps A S D F G H J K L ; ’ # 
    Shift\ Z X C V B N M , . /  Shift                 ↑ 
    Ctrl❖Alt                   Alt❖≡Ctrl   ← ↓  → 

  • Press any of the white keys once.

    OR

  • Don’t press any of the blue keys.

:innocent:

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Is this the start of a joke thread?

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It’s a lighter tutorial that made me smile while writing it in-between other tutorials that are much more complex.

:innocent:

I.E.: these:

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I hope it made you smile too!

:slight_smile:

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PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE, OR ANY OTHER KEY TO QUIT

KEYBOARD NOT DETECTED; PRESS F1 TO CONTINUE

:stuck_out_tongue:

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https://i.redd.it/io3adki155o51.png(image larger than 1 MB)

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