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From: carlton@aldebaran (Mike Carlton)
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Subject: Re: NeXT keyboards
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Date: 5 Feb 91 20:50:08 GMT
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In article <11946@darkstar.ucsc.edu> kjell@saturn.ucsc.edu (Kjell Post) writes:
>In article <1991Feb5.032803.23922@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
>>Just because the European market demands an
>>unusable keyboard is no reason we should be stuck with one.  (This is
>>the explanation/excuse that I've been told.)
>>
>>louie
>
>We don't want it either!  I type a lot of Swedish text and the '|' is
>used as a replacement for the o-with-umlaut character.  Not to mention
>plumbing-work in UNIX... <sigh>.
>
>I'd be interested to hear if anyone has figured out a good place for 
>putting that "lost" key back on the keyboard.

I put the pipe on shift-delete.  Normally shift-delete produces backspace,
but I don't use it (besides there is always cntl-h).

After a little searching, I found the right bytes to munge in the keymapping
to produce the pipe.  You want to replace the sequence 'stx nul del nul  bs'
with 'stx nul del nul   |'.  It is at offset 0312 in USA.keymapping, i.e.
'od -a /NextLibrary/Keyboards/USA.keymapping | grep 0000300' produces:
0000300  soh   - nul nul   2 nul nul   5 del del stx nul del nul  bs  nl

I copied the USA.keymapping to ~/Library/Keyboards/pipe.keymapping and
munged it, restarted Preferences and selected the new mapping and it 
works like a charm.

Cheers,
--mike
Mike Carlton	carlton@cs.berkeley.edu