Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!bbn.com!drilex!wrglex!j_prigot From: j_prigot@wrglex.uucp Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: Dvorak keyboard mapping with VMS Message-ID: <129.27b671cf@wrglex.uucp> Date: 11 Feb 91 15:28:31 GMT References: Organization: W.R. Grace & Co., Lexington, MA Lines: 24 In article , e_sx93@campus.swarthmore.edu writes: > I type using the Dvorak keyboard arrangement, and have been able to find > software which re-maps the keyboard for me on every computer system that I have > used except for our school's Vax (which runs VMS). Can anyone point me to some > code which I might execute with my login.com file? Any other suggested > solutions (besides remotely logging in through a Mac)? Thanks in advance for > any assistance. > I am assuming that you are logging onto the VAX via a terminal (VTxxx) of some sort. It is the terminal that is reading your keystrokes and sending the appropriate character to the VAX. From what I have seen with one of the people here, the only way you can set up the terminal with a Dvorak keyboard is to have someone blow another ROM for your keyboard. (He knew someone at DEC who was also a Dvorak user, and so was able to get a non-standard keyboard.) I am not sure whether the ROM is part of a one chip keyboard controller or whether it is separate. The only other possibility that I can think of is for someone to write a piece of code that could intercept the characters from the terminal and remap them to their equivalent Dvorak keyboard position. -- Jonathan M. Prigot j_prigot@wrglex or ...!drilex!wrglex!j_prigot