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From: heins@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Leeland Heins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Meta (Compose) Key Strangeness on DS3100
Keywords: Digital DS3100 Xterm Meta Wierd UWS 2.0
Message-ID: <1406@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 29 Aug 89 22:08:38 GMT
References: <865@hadron.UUCP> <19274@mimsy.UUCP> <8360@boring.cwi.nl> <19308@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: heins@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (Leeland Heins)
Organization: Iowa State U. Extension Service, Ames, IA
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In article <19308@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:

(a lot of totally justified grousing about the ugly LK201 keyboard)

Chris,

   Well, you could take the approach I have on several occasions...
rip the keyboard apart and do some manual remapping.  I've done this
to several imitations of the awful IBM-PC, IBM-AT or the really
unbearable IBM "Enhanced" keyboard...  Unfortunately, University
administrators really frown on hacking up their equipment.  :-(
   Unfortunately, I think the LK201 is beyond hope for this kind of
mods since the return key is the wrong shape...
   Is there anyone that makes a fixed keyboard that is compatible with
the LK201?  I'd really like to replace all of them that we have around
here with something that is bearable.

What I really want is this:

 ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ________
|   || ! || @ || # || $ || % || ^ || & || * || ( || ) || _ || + ||        |
|esc|| 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 0 || - || = || delete |
`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`--------'
 _______  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___
|       ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   || { || } || | |
|  tab  || q || w || e || r || t || y || u || i || o || p || [ || ] || \ |
`-------'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'
 ________  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ________
|        ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   || : || " ||        |
|  ctrl  || a || s || d || f || g || h || j || k || l || ; || ' || return |
`--------'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`--------'
 __________  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  __________
|          ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   || < || > || ? ||          |
|   shift  || z || x || c || v || b || n || m || , || . || / ||  shift   |
`----------'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`----------'
 ____  ___  ___  ________________________________  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___
|caps|| ~ ||   ||                                ||opt|| / ||\ /|| ^ || \ |
|lock|| ` ||cmd||              space             ||ion|| \ || v ||/ \|| / |
`----'`---'`---'`--------------------------------'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'

Command and Option keys could be relabeled whatever meta-type keys were
appropriate.

Of course you'd need to add "Hold screen", "Print screeen", "Setup" and
"Break" keys.
Putting a Backspace key just to the right of the Delete key would be O.K.
too...  and caps lock could go to the left of Ctrl also...

If f-keys are absolutely necessary (I don't like 'em, I don't use 'em), they
should be lined up directly above the numbers.  A numeric keypad could be
put directly to the right of the main keyboard.

>In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163)
>Domain:	chris@mimsy.umd.edu	Path:	uunet!mimsy!chris

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