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From: anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Solution: swapping keys on extended keyboard
Message-ID: <1991Jan6.004109.5988@verity.com>
Date: 6 Jan 91 00:41:09 GMT
References: <1991Jan4.065438.19493@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> <1991Jan4.184536.4581@verity.com> <1991Jan4.214437.6025@verity.com> <1991Jan5.034841.11758@eng.umd.edu>
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In-Reply-To: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)

In article <1991Jan5.034841.11758@eng.umd.edu>, russotto@eng (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
>In article <1991Jan4.214437.6025@verity.com> anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren) writes:
>>Unfortunately I spoke too soon.  My IIfx and Extended Keyboard II
>>didn't seem to want to pay attention to changes to the KMAP resource
>>(I even tried modifying the other ones to see if the new keyboard uses
>>a different one, but to no avail).
>
>What you need is a 1977 Apple ROV#.  Low mileage, runs well, great price...
>Errr, never mind that.  You need to add a ROV# (ROM Override) resource to
>your system file, and enter the resource type (KMAP) and ID for the KMAP
>resource into it.  I don't know the proper ID for the IIfx offhand, though--
>someone out there must know it.

Fortunately, this turned out to be the correct solution - I added KMAP
#2 to the ROV# resource with the highest version number and everything
is now hunky-dory - I'm typing this message into an emacs window under
MacX, and am experiencing no pinky-pain whatsoever.  Thanks to Jerry
and Matthew for making my life 100% complete.

anders