Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ccieng2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccieng5!ccieng2!kfk From: kfk@ccieng2.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Dvorak keyboard mapping Message-ID: <106@ccieng2.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 16:46:42 EST Article-I.D.: ccieng2.106 Posted: Wed Feb 8 16:46:42 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 03:23:33 EST Organization: Computer Consoles Inc., Rochester, NY Lines: 29 ---------- From sri-unix!gwyn@brl-vld Thu Feb 2 17:31:08 1984 Subject: Re: Dvorak keyboard mapping Seems to me the "right" place for keyboard mapping is in the terminal keyboard logic. Then you need no special arrangements at all in the operating system. ---------- Personally, I'd like to see a dvorak mode in the kernel. There are, of course, many problems with it, such as what happens to control keys in general, since (as another person said) ^S/^Q have particular meanings for such terminals as the VT100, and if you decide to have the control keys go with the regular keys, what happens to ^Z, since I know of no terminals which generate something called ^/ (Z and / trade places on dvorak key- boards). But putting it into the tty driver would make it available in some form to all terminals, which I would like very much. (My Concept 108 cannot be downloaded for a Dvorak mapping.) Of course, those terminals which are downloadable for such things can be very useful. We also use Zentec 8001 terminals (sorry, if you were eating) which we can download so that it interprets everything in dvorak positions, including things like the Z-/ problem. That's nice; pity that I don't like any of the other functions of a Zentec. P.S. The comments contained herein on the subject of Zentecs are my own and are in no way representative of my employer. -- Karl Kleinpaste ...![ [seismo, allegra]!rochester!ritcv, rlgvax]!ccieng5!ccieng2!kfk