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- From: sharris@chopin.udel.edu (Scott A Harris)
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- Subject: Re: Dvorak keyboards for the Mac?
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- Date: 13 Aug 92 13:32:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.043950.15334@news.columbia.edu> peller@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Adam Peller) writes:
- >I'm about to invest in a new Mac and I despise the cheesy keyboards
- >Apple is selling these days :-(
- >
- >Since I'm also about to take the plunge and attempt to learn the
- >Dvorak keyboard, I was wondering if anyone knows of a company
- >that makes a decent keyboard in the Dvorak configuration.
- >
- >If not, 1) are there any decent QWERTY 3rd-party keyboards out there
- >(not necessarily IBM-like with unnecessary PF keys and such,
- >just a simple, solid keyboard) and 2) are there any PD utilities
- >to rearrange the Mac keyboard for Dvorak? (probably just a keymap
- >layout file, right? I suppose I could make it up myself...)
- >
- >Thanks
- >
- >Adam Peller
- >peller@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu
- >
- >
- >
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- There is a keyboard layout available that will make the standard keyboard
- act like the dvorak keyboard. All you have to do is install it in your
- mac and then change to it. Other than that I don't know of any keyboard
- swaps that might also change the letters.
-
- Scott
-
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- Scott Harris
- sharris@chopin.udel.edu
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