From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 15 14:10:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA15467 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 14:10:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA15425 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 14:10:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA06259; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 16:09:59 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu: jfieber owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 16:09:59 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu To: Branson Matheson cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD keyboard In-Reply-To: <199607151953.PAA08249@garion.hq.ferg.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Branson Matheson wrote: > ok... so where does one get a dvorak keyboard? Many places. If you are using a fairly recent version of FreeBSD and use syscons, you can use kbdcontrol to load a dvorak keymap which can be found in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps. If you use a recent version of XFree86 with the keyboard extension, it comes with a dvorak layout option. Most any xterminal will work with the xdvorak program. The Amiga comes with a dvorak keymap standard. Some versions of MS-DOS came with dvorak keymaps. I think you can download an "extras" disks from Microsoft for recent versions of MS-DOS that includes a dvorak layout. Dvorak keymaps are readily available for the Macintosh, although there is a lot of variation among them. The one I use is available from Dvorak International. I may still have a line of emacs code to remap if you live in emacs and must use a dumb terminal. I once had a dvorak keymap file for NextStep. Back when I used CP/M, I used a keyboard macro program to make a dvorak keymap. I think that covers most environments in common use. http://www.ccsi.com/~mbrooks/dvorak has some more info. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================