penneyj@servio.UUCP (D. Jason Penney) (03/21/90)
In article <674@sagpd1.UUCP> jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins) writes: [snip] >I realized that, while Dvorak was far superior (possible religious war warning) >as long as the rest of the world used qwerty I probably should too. So >think about it. If you try to switch daily between the 2 keyboard layouts >you won't be very good at either. Unless you're either willing to convert >every keyboard you use, or only use 1 keyboard day in and day out, it's not >worth the hassle. > >Now, if anyone wants to start a movement we replace qwerty with Dvorak..... I beg to differ; I use both qwerty and dvorak at work. It's true there was a terrible moment of truth (about 40 hours into learning dvorak) where I couldn't touch type EITHER keyboard -- cognitive disruption! It went away with about another 10 hours of practice. I too am a dvorak fan. I have dvorak drivers for the IBM PC and all Suns. I also have a learning program that currently runs on the IBM PC -- perhaps I'll get around converting the MS Basic to curses C sometime :-). If you are interested in this software, contact my KISS server. Route mail to penneyj@slc.com, and use jason-archive-request for the subject. If your return address is peculiar (not domain based), your first line should be, path from-me-to-you (I connect to uunet and ogicse directly). "send help" and "send index" are good for starters if you're not familiar with kiss. Otherwise, here's the current contents of my dvorak subdirectory: total 282 -rw-r--r-- 1 penneyj 56762 Mar 5 09:50 Part01 -rw-r--r-- 1 penneyj 56302 Mar 5 09:50 Part02 -rw-r--r-- 1 penneyj 53038 Mar 5 09:50 Part03 -rw-r--r-- 1 penneyj 49691 Mar 5 09:50 Part04 -rw-r--r-- 1 penneyj 32318 Mar 5 09:50 Part05 -rw-r--r-- 1 penneyj 31238 Mar 5 09:50 Part06 -rw-r--r-- 1 penneyj 6416 Mar 19 17:10 dvorak.sun Parts 1 through 6 contain the IBM keyboard driver and the learning program. Don't worry; the bulk of the learning program is the test data. The keyboard driver allows you to switch between layouts, even while any other program is running. dvorak.sun is the trivial program to change the Sun console between Dvorak and Qwerty. I am also interested in public domain Dvorak driver software for other hosts. It's best if it allows people to switch dynamically -- Qwerty will NEVER go away. Sigh. -- D. Jason Penney Ph: (503) 629-8383 Beaverton, OR 97006 uucp: ...uunet!servio!penneyj (penneyj@slc.com) "Computers are useless; they can only give answers" -- Picasso