Dvorak keyboard in DOS 5.0

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From: Norman Henderson
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 05:00

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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
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Norm Henderson, Ottawa
aa682@Freenet.carleton.ca
fax: (613)745-1280

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