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From: rogerw@cisco.com (Roger M. Wilcox)
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Subject: Talk: Dvorak
Date: 24 Mar 1995 17:44:36 -0600
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In article <36nhqn$d1d@gagme.wwa.com> jpatters@mole.uvm.edu (Jake Patterson) writes:
>
>   If you have an IBM enhanced keyboard, you can change around all the 
>keycaps.  Other keyboards may allow you to do this as well.  Would this 
>work?  For example is the double quote character on the same key as the 
>single quote on a dvorak?  I know you can get the IBM keyboards for much 
>less then $200.

Yes, this will work.  Both the US-Dvorak keyboard layout supported by
Windows/Windows NT/Windows 95 and the layout provided by the old SureStroke
device driver in MS-DOS can be created by re-arranging the keys on a
conventional or extended PC keyboard.  The ? is always above the /, the
= is always below the +, et cetera.
   Well, almost, anyway.  The old SureStroke translator makes the mistake
of turning the / on the extended numeric keypad into a Z, since it was
written before enhanced keyboards caught on.  (The US-Dvorak layout in
the various Windows platforms does not have this flaw, though.)


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