I seem to remember that there is already a dvorak key map somewhere in Plan
9. I was able to just use it.
On Dec 2, 2012 7:34 PM, "Murray Colpman" <muzerakascooby@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/12/12 01:08, Bakul Shah wrote:
> > On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:45:29 GMT Murray Colpman <
> muzerakascooby@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> When I run the kbmap program, attempting to set a map flashes up an
> >> error about not being able to find /dev/kbmap. Looking at the manpages,
> >> it seems that /dev/kbmap is supposed to be brought in with bind -a
> >> '#kappa' /dev (with kappa obviously replaced with the actual kappa
> >> letter). I did snarf the kappa from the manpage, and I also tried typing
> >> it on the keyboard in various ways (compose, *, k for instance), so I
> >> don't think that the issue is that I'm unable to type kappa correctly.
> >> Anyway, when I run this bind command, I get "bind: #kappa: unknown
> >> device in # filename" (again, kappa replaced with the actual kappa).
> >
> > You need to compile the driver in.  Add
> >       kbmap
> > to the dev section in config file /sys/src/9/bcm/pi.  mk and
> > then copy 9pi to the dos partition.
> >
> >       dossrv -f /dev/sdM0/dos
> >       mount -c /sv/dos /n/dos
> >       cp /sys/src/9/bcm/9pi /n/dos/9pi
> >       fshalt
> >
> Thank you very much for the instructions!
>
> Just tried it, kbmap now works perfectly, and I have now set the
> keyboard map in my lib/profile. It all works :D - now I just have to
> hack together a UK Dvorak - the map files look easy enough to fiddle
> with. I'll do this tomorrow as I should really be sleeping now, though.
>
> Thanks a lot!
> Murray Colpman.
>
>