Dvorak keyboard in DOS 5.0

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2 total messages Started by Norman Henderson Sat, 23 Jan 1993 05:00

#7687

Author: 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

Re: Dvorak keyboard in DOS 5.0

#7691

Author: 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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|Yuval Oren						               |
|yuval@ocf.berkeley.edu     				               |
| "One spoiled green bird is worth two cooks in the other grass broth."|

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