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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Dvorak keymap
Message-ID: <994@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 91 08:57:23 GMT
References: <1991Mar07.222033.23864@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> <974@cbmger.UUCP> <11329@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
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In article <11329@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> rolee@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Profess'nal Agitator) writes:
>In article <974@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>>It's in there! Look into your Extras disk, in the devs/keymaps drawer
>>and try usa2. It IS Dvorak.
>
>Now, if we rename usa2 to dvorak, will the OS recognize the change or do all
>keymaps have to be named countryn?

The name of the keymap has no meaning to the OS at all. You may rename it
just as you like it. You only have to issue the setmap command (e.g. in 
the startup-sequence) with the current filename of the thing.

If you asked a different question, like "how to get Dvorak mapping for
other countries?", then it's tricky. The current Dvorak mapping is only
for USA. I even don't know whether Dvorak mappings for other countries
exist. (They should be fairly different, because Dvorak optimizes the
layout for typing speed, and as you use other characters in other
languages with other percentages of use, that should vary.) If there is
such a beast, then you still could resort to one of those keymap editor
programs on Fish disks (though none of them worked for me, the only
thing that worked on my "d" keymap, was NewZAP3.0 :-).

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