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From: wilson@csli.Stanford.EDU (Nathan Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Keyboard remapping
Message-ID: <14348@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 6 Jul 90 01:07:28 GMT
Sender: wilson@csli.Stanford.EDU (Nathan Wilson)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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I have a couple of questions about changing the behavior of a
macintosh keyboard.  In the early days there was a utility that
remapped the normal keyboard keys to a Dvorak keyboard and I think one
of the even more efficient layouts.  Does such a thing already exist
for the modern Macs (in particular tthe MacIIcx)?  If not where can I
find a description of these mappings?

Someone at my site would like to switch the functions for the shift
and control keys on an ADB Extended Keyboard.  He is used to Suns and
is forced to use a mac as a terminal for a short while and would
rather not confuse his keyboard circuits.  I realize that this is
horribly against the user interface guidelines, but I'd like to do it
anyway.  What are my options?  As far as I can tell the KMAP an KCHR
resources are useless for this.  I've never written an event patch,
and I hope I don't have to write a new driver.  Any suggestions or
code would be most welcome.

Thanks in advance,
Nathan Wilson
Teleos Research
nathan%teleos.com@ai.sri.com