On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Alex McLintock wrote:
>      
> > A last question(I hope so!) , I've got a french keyboard, and I want to 
> > switch RiscBSD to handle my keyboard map... How (if possible) do I manage 
> > to do this????
>      
>      Dare I suggest buy a unix book which goes into termcap in great 
>      detail. Define a new terminal capabilities file. And once you have 
>      defined the alternative termcap file supply it to Mark for inclusion 
>      in the standard distribution.
>      
>      But before you do that paint a large X on the wall for banging your 
>      head against.
>      
>      ----
>      
>      Actually I think what you need is an appropriate termcap file - which 
>      I hope someone else has already created. 
>      
	I dont think termcap will help here - what you need is to modify
	the table in the kernel that maps keypresses. Several other NetBSD
	ports already do this - I _think_ they inlcude the atari, amiga,
	mac686, and i386. You should probably be able to reuse some code
	there :)

                   David/abs             (david@mono.org)

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