gm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Greg McGary) (12/14/88)
I have an AT clone (Hyundai 286c) which I like very much. The only
thing I dislike are the positions of the <caps-lock> and <ctrl> keys on
the AT-style keyboard. I much prefer the <ctrl> key to be where
<caps-lock> is now, and for <caps-lock> to not exist--the only time I
type <caps-lock> is by accident!
Is it possible to remap these keys within DOS, or do I have to perform
electrical surgery to the keyboard itself? I know that individual
applications sometimes allow key-mapping, but I want to remap these
keys once and for all at the lowest possible level.
Please reply by mail, I'll summarize once it's been proven that this
is either possible or impossible.
Thanks!
-- Greg McGary
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-- gm@cs.duke.edudave@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Dave Goldblatt) (12/14/88)
From article <13069@duke.cs.duke.edu>, by gm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Greg McGary): > Is it possible to remap these keys within DOS, or do I have to perform > electrical surgery to the keyboard itself? I know that individual > applications sometimes allow key-mapping, but I want to remap these > keys once and for all at the lowest possible level. It's probably just easier if I post it -- it's only 144 bytes long. I have no idea where it came from. -dg- --------------------------------cut here------------------------------ begin 644 ibmfix.com MZW"0``````"<4!ZX0`".V(HF%P#D8#P==1LN@#X'`0%T,XK$)$`T0(#DOPK@6 M+L8&!P$!ZQP\G74(+L8&!P$`ZQ0\.G4%@,P$ZP<\NG4<@.3[B"87`.1ABN`,Y M@.9AAN#F8?JP(.8@'UB=SQ]8G2[_+@,!N`DUS2&)'@,!C`8%`;H(`;@))<TA8 )NG,!S2<`````B `` end
cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) (12/15/88)
In article <13069@duke.cs.duke.edu>, gm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Greg McGary) writes: > I have an AT clone (Hyundai 286c) which I like very much. The only > thing I dislike are the positions of the <caps-lock> and <ctrl> keys on > the AT-style keyboard. I much prefer the <ctrl> key to be where > <caps-lock> is now, and for <caps-lock> to not exist--the only time I > type <caps-lock> is by accident! > > -- Greg McGary Look on the underside of your keyboard -- a surprising number of the so-called enhanced keyboards have two switches: one that controls whether this is an AT or XT keyboard, another that swaps Ctrl and CapsLock. The keyboards that come with Everex ATs also include new keycaps to match the swapped positions. -- Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer (Note new path!)