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Subject: Re: FreeBSD keyboard
To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly)
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 12:17:50 +0200 (MET DST)
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Sean Kelly writes:
>
> Anyway, what I really ought to do is move to a Dvorak keyboard.  A
> friend of mine and I used to have a typing speed competition going.
> We both peaked out about 100 wpm; he's later exceeded that by moving
> to Dvorak.
>
> I noticed an X program out there called xdvorak ... I'm hoping it's a
> Dvorak keyboard typing tutor (but more likely its just glitz riding
> atop xmodmap).

I've thought of that, but the big problem I have is that even now I
find using "standard" keyboards difficult because of minor differences
in the layout.  With Dvorak, I would effectively make myself useless
at anybody else's machine.  Definitely not what a consultant wants to
do.

Greg