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Subject: Re: [9fans] Russian keyboard
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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:19:24 +0200
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andrey mirtchovski wrote:

>... and have some mechanism to, say, 'cat mymap > /dev/kbmap'
>then switching between any number of non-default keyboard and keyboard
>bindings would be trivial.
>
>i believe someone was writing a modification to /dev/kbmap to that effect.
>
The stuff that Charles Forsyth did and I modified did exactly that.  I
always thought that compiled in maps were were ugly and just added
unnecessary bloat as most of the time all those tables wouldn't be used.