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heathh@cco.caltech.edu (Heath Ian Hunnicutt) writes:

>	Does anyone reading this use a Dvorak style keyboard?  If so,
>where did you get it?  Do you feel that it is a great help to you?
>How so?  Does it seem to make typing easier?

I do.  I run Linux (a free unix for [34]86 boxes---read comp.os.linux
for more info if you're interested) and I use the dvorak keyboard
option.  This is implemented the same way the US, French, Finnish, UK,
etc. keyboards are implemented, and is a compile-time option.  This
means that no one elso can use my computer.  My room mate jokes that
it greatly enhances system security.  I wrote the dvorak option some
time ago and it has long since been a standard part of the
distribution.  It can be very useful to have the sources for your
opperating system kernel.  My keyboard is an ordinary Northgate
101-key keyboard.  I put rub-on letters on the keys for dvorak,
otherwise I'd have to put both hands on the keyboard to find the "n"
key :-) Does any one have any ideas for better key labeling?  Do any
manufacturers have dvorak key caps for their keyboards?  Are there any
good keyboards with interchangable key caps?  (The Northgate key caps
are all have different shapes, depending on the position on the
keyboard.  Just switching them around would result in keys sticking
out at weird heights and angles.)

I like the dvorak arrangement.  I don't really know if it reduces
stress, but my subjective impression is that it is more pleasent to
type on than qwerty.  There seems to be less finger movement, and
common letter sequences seem to sort of roll off my finger tips very
easily.  For example, "th" is easy to type, and so is the very common
word "the".  

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Michael Pereckas     pereckas@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Have you used the term ``nasal demons'' today?