Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!sunaus.oz!sunchat!markd From: Markd@Aus.Sun.COM Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Dvorak keyboard Message-ID: Date: 13 Nov 90 08:10:13 GMT References: <1941.273e9858@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> Sender: news@sunaus.oz Organization: Sun Microsystems - Australia Lines: 29 herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes: >In article , greg@turbo.atl.ga.us (Greg Montgomery) writes: >> I'm looking for anywhere I can get a Dvorak keyboard for my 386. If >> anyone knows any manufacturers or sellers of them, please let me know. >I think Jerry Pournelle said that Northgate has one. All it takes is >a different set of molded keytops. (I don't understand why Jerry >likes the Northgate keyboards so much. I bot one and it doubles keys >on me and does not have N-Key Rollover.) >If you don't have to have the names of the keys engraved on the >keytops, PC-Write lets you remap the keyboard. So do various >other programs. Hang a picture of the key layout on the wall >and do the remapping in software. You don't mention which OS you're using but if it's UNIX/XENIX, there are a variety of trivial ways to remap keystrokes. In Xenix there is a keymap file and for Unix you could write a fairly trivial filter. You also may find that your keyboard lets you move the keys around by gentle prying individual keys off. But check the actual method with your keyboard manufacturer first, OK? ------------ ----------------- -------------------- Mark Delany markd@Aus.Sun.COM ...!sun!sunaus!markd ------------ ----------------- --------------------