XENIX, AT KEYBOARD
Andy Sibre
andys at aquin.UUCP
Wed Aug 6 07:58:59 AEST 1986
The brain-damaged AT keyboard comes with the <ESCAPE> key in the wrong place.
This is a minor problem, thanks to SCO. There is a utility called "mapkey"
which solves the problem. You edit "/usr/lib/keyboard/keys", swapping
the lines for scan-codes 1 and 41, and then change the number "1" to "41",
and "41" to "1".
Then swap keycaps on the keyboard (escape and the tilde-backquote).
(When you do this, be sure to pry STRAIGHT UP !!!)
Lastly, be root and run "/usr/bin/mapkey". Voila! It makes NO CHANGES to
"/xenix"... only to that kernal data space containing the keyboard driver's
definitions. Takes effect immediately.
If you like it, simply add a line to the end of "/etc/rc" saying
"/usr/bin/mapkey". It will then set the driver properly every time the machine
boots. Effective for all console users.
SCO isn't perfect, but they do include a lot of nice touches.
--andys
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