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From: tecot@apple.UUCP (Ed Tecot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Key Character Mapping
Message-ID: <1477@apple.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 16:38:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: apple.1477
Posted: Fri Aug 14 16:38:20 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 05:48:17 EDT
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In article <4009@oberon.USC.EDU> humphrey@castor.usc.edu (Steve Humphrey) writes:
>Help!!!  I am still trying to map my keyboard to dvorak.  Here's the
>scoop:
>
>I've hacked all day on my Mac SE / System 4.0 to change the keyboard
>mapping, with no luck.
>
>Hacking at KCAP and KMAP was futile (as I expected, bombs on restart).
>However, KCHR seems to be a rather simply laid out "map" for
>normal/shifted/command/option/etc values of characters.  I can change
>these without any problem (no bombs) but THIS DOESN'T CHANGE THE
>LAYOUT!!!

That's right.  Both the Mac SE and Mac II have a copy of the KCHR resource
in ROM.  To get the system to accept your change you must:

1) Update to System 4.1 or later

2) Add KCHR 0 to the ROv# resource for your machine (630=SE, 376=II)
	(This may already be done for some systems)

3) Reboot

Note that this is a quick and dirty way to get your keyboard to change.
A much cleaner method will be described in a forthcoming technical note.

						_emt