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Subject: Re: How do you do DVORAK?
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Date: 9 May 89 14:50:29 GMT
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Network Comment: to #487 by obsolete!portal!cup.portal.com!Sirald%uunet.uu.net

>worth the confusion.  In other words, if you EVER need to
>use QWERTY on a regular basis, it isn't worth the time of
>the mistakes made with DVORAK as your native type.

I've encountered that problem, myself.  I am forced to use a Macintosh when
laying out the club newsletter, and the only keyboard arrangement available is
Qwerty.  "Hunt-and-peck" is a kind way to describe my typing style during
these sessions; fortunately, they're brief.  Rarely does anyone other than
myself use my computers, and I rarely (with the above exception) use anyone
else's, so sticking with Dvorak isn't much of a problem.

>There's another point to consider.  DVORAK is not
>widely supported enough by Apple software.  Diagnostic

There is only one piece of Apple software with which the Dvorak layout was a
problem (to me), and that was Roger Wagner's Macromate.  I could input the
macros correctly, but when they were replayed, the translation was wrong. 
Incredibly weird strings would be output unless the keyboard layout had been
changed to "U.S.A."  I reported the bug, and was shortly rewarded with a new
version that worked correctly with Dvorak.  So at the moment, I'm happy, and I
haven't discovered any new incompatibilities with the software that I use.

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