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Frequently-Asked Questions Can I disable the backspace key? IE provides a handy helpful feature nobody asked for: the backspace key is a shortcut or hot key for the Back button. It moves you to the previous page you visited. This can cause you to be logged out of TC, if you're not careful. It can be pretty annoying until you learn what to do. To answer the question: no, the hot keys can't be disabled in IE. Thanks, Microsoft. But, there are some things to do which make it easier to deal with. First, be careful not to click outside the TC applet. If the browser doesn't have "focus", the hot key isn't enabled. Especially, make sure you click inside the commands field, and you'll be fine. Second, and especially if you're hand-eye challenged like me, just use Netscape instead. Navigator works just fine with TC, and doesn't have the annoying backspace hot key. Web pages load a little more slowly, but once you've got the page with the TC applet up, there's no speed difference. Version 6.2 seems pretty stable. We hope this helps! Back to the FAQ index.     2010 SmartMonsters, Inc. All Rights are Reserved. "Burroughs's zone, or interzone, is a vast, ramshackle structure in which all the world's architectural styles are are fused and all its races and cultures mingle .... Sometimes it is located in Latin America or North Africa, sometimes (as in The Ticket That Exploded, 1962) on another planet, sometimes (as in Cities of the Red Night,, 1981) in a lost civilization of the distant past. By contrast, Alasdair Gray's zone (in Lanark, 1981), a space of paradox modeled on the Wonderland and Looking-glass worlds of the Alice books, has been displaced to the ambiguous no man's land between cities .... Pynchon's zone is paradignmatic for the heterotopian space of postmodernist writing .... Here ... a large number of fragmentary possible worlds coexist in an impossible space which is associated with occupied Germany, but which is in fact located nowhere but in the written text itself." --Brian McHale, Postmodernist Fiction (info)

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