[HowTo] Press any key

[Fabby]

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:
   

   
   
   Use that key!

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.

[AlbertoSalviaNovella]

Is this the start of a joke thread?

[Fabby]

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

I.E.: these:

I hope it made you smile too!

[Aragorn]

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

KEYBOARD NOT DETECTED; PRESS F1 TO CONTINUE

[FadeMind]

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