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From: kelly@woody.fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly)
Subject: Re: UNIX-style keyboards
Message-ID: <1994Dec5.224620.13596@fsl.noaa.gov>
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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 22:46:20 GMT
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In article <3c01fk$fhb@news.panix.com>, Wayne Berke <berke@panix.com> wrote:
>Can anyone tell me how to obtain UNIX-style keyboards.  All they have
>in stores is the stupid "CAPS-lock where CNTL key should be" models.

I agree: those models are stupid.  IBM must've been trying to target
secretaries and managers when they decided to put CapsLock in that
position.  Luckily, I'm neither.

Computer Express (http://cexpress.com:2700/) has a programmable model
but it's rather expensive.

Cheaper alternative: If you're running FreeBSD, the kbdcontrol command
will let you put CTRL where it should be.  If you're running X, the
xmodmap command will let you do that as well.

--k