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- From: aa682@Freenet.carleton.ca (Norman Henderson)
- Subject: Dvorak keyboard in DOS 5.0
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.050058.26137@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Sender: news@freenet.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Organization: National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Canada
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 05:00:58 GMT
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- I need a means to map the keyboard to the Dvorak layout in DOS -
- the obvious way would be by an appropriate mod to KEYBOARD.SYS
- (e.g. sacrificing an unneeded layout such as DK - Danish - and
- replacing it by Dvorak). However I can't find documentation on
- the KEYBOARD.SYS data structures and dumping them didn't reveal
- an obvious keyboard table.
-
- I did find a book with a TSR for keyboard substitution but (a)
- the TSR was written for DOS 2.0 and (b) I don't want to pay for
- the book! Anyway it would seem much cleaner to use a solution
- based on KEYB.COM/KEYBOARD.SYS.
-
- Any guidance would be very much appreciated! I talked my
- daughter into a science-fair project using the Dvorak keyboard,
- and then discovered that we couldn't use it on the old laptop-
- only on the "big" WIN3.1 system! Dad's in danger of serious
- trouble!
-
- -Norm Henderson, Ottawa, Ontario
- aa682@Freenet.carleton.ca
- fax (613)745-1280
- --
- Norm Henderson, Ottawa
- aa682@Freenet.carleton.ca
- fax: (613)745-1280
-