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Re: Dvorak keyboard in DOS 5.0

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From: Yuval Oren;B1E;26199;8436073;ZA8...
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 08:42
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In article <1993Jan23.050058.26137@freenet.carleton.ca> aa682@Freenet.carleton.ca (Norman Henderson) writes:
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>I need a means to map the keyboard to the Dvorak layout in DOS -

I use a dvorak layout myself. This is what I did:

Popped all the keys off my keyboard, put them in the DVORAK layout.

Got a TSR called dvorak.com to remap the keys. But I don't know where
I got it, so you can get /pc/keyboard/dvorak.zip from garbo.uwasa.fi,
which will do it through ANSI keyboard redefinition (you need an
ANSI.SYS equivalent). Or, you can get
mirrors/msdos/keyboard/keymap00.zip from wuarchive.wustl.edu. This
lets you easily switch between the two, but you'll have to mess around
with it a bit to get it to default to dvorak.

For Windows, all you need to do is go to the Control
Panel:International and select the Dvorak layout.

Problems:

There is no way to fool programs that do their own keyboard reads.
Lots of games do this.

Yuval

P.S. I really like my new layout. After a few weeks, I can finally
type half-decently! Pretty soon, I'll be burning rubber.



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