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Re: Dvorak keyboard

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From: Keith T Skapinski
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 18:48
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In article <1992Aug1.192820.17549@sophia.smith.edu> gitlin@sophia.smith.edu (Carole Gitlin) writes:
>Hi,
>
>After reading about the Dvorak keyboard on the NeXT groups, and trying it out
>on my NeXT, I decided to put it on my PC.  From archie, I got a list of
>several sites with dvorak programs.  However, none of them seemed to work.
>One, a batch file, got stuck in an infinite loop.  Two others, which were
>in assembly language, I could not get assembled with several different
>assemblers.  Also, all of these programs were 7-10 years old.  I was wondering
>if anyone knew of a program to switch to the dvorak keyboard, and also to
>switch back to the normal program.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Carole
>
>gitlin@sophia.smith.edu


Use ANSI.SYS which comes with DOS. It allows you to assign keys to other keys.
For example if the Q on a QWERTY keyboard should be a D on a Dvorak keyboard,
just assign Q to D, etc. You should be able to find the syntax for doing
this in your DOS manual or a third party DOS book.

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