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Re: Keyboard mapping

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From: Robin Watts
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:00
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In article <4873ef9e38rayd@argonet.co.uk>, Ray Dawson
<URL:mailto:rayd@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean Jon. The natural keyboard is basically a
> standard keyboard, but split in the middle.

With 3 extra keys:

The Left Windows Key (between Left Ctrl and Left Alt)
The Right Windows Key (to the right of the Right Alt Gr)
The Applications Key (to the left of the Right Ctrl)

> The 12 function keys are still there, but grouped in two lots of six
> rather than three lots of four. I don't find that a problem.

Me either.

> The slight oddity is the Home/End etc keys which are grouped 2X 3Y
> instead of the more familiar 3X 2Y ie
> 
>           Home    Page Up
>           End     Page down
>           Delete  Insert

Really? You must have a newer version than me, then. Mine are 3X 2Y.

> which makes them a bit more logical for my fingers. The caps come
> off easily enough, I just need a way of remapping them - perhaps by
> modifying the Keyboard module or whatever?

If you have the PS2Driver module in ROM, there are tables of keycodes
in that you can hack (its what !WinKbdPat does), but its not pretty...

Robin
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Subject: Re: Keyboard mapping
Date: 1998/08/11
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