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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: PC Keyboard Scancodes
In-Reply-To: <20000415131506.28342@techunix.technion.ac.il> from Anatoly Vorobey at "Apr 15, 2000 01:15:06 pm"
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It seems Anatoly Vorobey wrote:
> 
> Of course, with all those new keys on all those keyboards, we should
> perhaps think about whether to add all of them as new keycodes,
> and if so, in which order, etc. I've no idea if FreeBSD's concept
> of 'keycode' (i.e. key number independent of keyboard model) is
> synchronized with other BSD's, or Linux, etc.

I modelled them after SCO UNIX 3.2 way back when, I know that upto
some point I kept the keymaps compatible to SCO's, but I think that
got broken since....

-Søren


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