Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!emory!wa4mei!turbo!greg From: greg@turbo.atl.ga.us (Greg Montgomery) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Dvorak keyboard Summary: You can turn a regular keyboard into a Dvorak keyboard by software Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 90 21:52:58 GMT References: <4360@auspex.auspex.com> Reply-To: greg@turbo.atl.ga.us Organization: Montgomery Consultants, Inc. Lines: 28 hitz@auspex.auspex.com (Dave Hitz) writes: > But in netnews articles I always see people saying things like, "I > turned my keyboard to Dvorak by hacking the tty driver in the kernel > to ..." > > Is my memory wrong about the Dvorak keyboard, or have some clever > people actually figured out how to make the kernel tty driver (or in > this case a switch setting) move the plastic keys around on the > keyboard? > -- > Dave Hitz work: 408-492-0900 > UUCP: {uunet,mips,sun,bridge2}!auspex!hitz home: 408-739-7116 It is possible to do that by software. Someone (penneyj@slc.com) sent me a driver in 8086 asm do switch between Dvorak and QWERTY by hitting a hot-key. If anyone would like a copy of how to get this from his archive server, let me know and I will post the form letter he sent me... P.S. - Thanks to everyone who responded to my article. It seems my two choices are to talk to Northgate about getting some keycaps or use the driver I have now. ---- Greg Montgomery | Montgomery Consultants, Inc. | Atlanta, Georgia Internet: greg@turbo.atl.ga.us | Home of the '96 UUCP: {rutgers,ogcise,gatech}!emory!turbo!greg | Olympics!