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From: fox@skink.ino.ucar.edu (Dan Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: keyboard mapping
Keywords: Miscellaneous
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Date: 20 Feb 90 14:10:19 GMT
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The SUN type 4 keyboard has 12 function keys at the top and 21 function
keys to the right of the keyboard, but on SPARCstations only F1-F9 and
R1-R15 are defined as function keys.  In other words the type 4 keyboard
acts exactly like a type 3 keyboard.  This is a problem when using SUN's
TE100 product for VT100 emulation under SUNVIEW for example.  The keypad
on the type 4 keyboard is very similar to a VT100 keypad, but 6 of the
keypad keys are effectively none functioning.  It looks like a quick fix
for this problem would be to duplicate F1-F9 on F10-F12 and the 6
unallocated keypad keys. 

Can the keys be remapped just by modifying the keymap tables from
/usr/lib/keymaps?  Are there any tools available to assist in generating
new keymaps, or to print keymap files in a readable format?

On the 386i SUN has added nine new named function keys, F10-F12 and B1-B6,
associated with the nine new keys.  Maybe they will do the same on
SPARCstations eventually.