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Subject: Re: kbdcontrol -d broken
To: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 17:25:13 +0930 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199510250740.BAA27813@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Oct 25, 95 01:40:51 am
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Nate Williams stands accused of saying:
> 
> I'm finally sick and tired of having to my caps-lock and control keys
> different in X and in text mode, so I'd like to install a new cutomized
> keyboard handler to do it for me.  However, I can't dump my current
> keymap since the command to dump the current map to stdout is broken.
> 
> root:/root # kbdcontrol -d
> getting keymap: Inappropriate ioctl for device

try running it on a vty, rather than in an xterm 8)

> Nate

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