Hi, I've taken the existing membership of the alt-keyboards list and moved it to egroups. For more information on egroups visit <http://www.egroups.com/>. ...
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Craig Richmond
craig@...
Jul 2, 2000 1:48 am
... The listserv on gu.uwa.edu.au has been flaky at best. I set up an egroup that you can join. All of the current alt-keyboards members are already signed...
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Bob Jones
bobjones@...
Jul 8, 2000 12:16 pm
Hi All I am still there but currently very busy. It is worth continuing the struggle. The great advantage of Dvorak for the rapidly increasing horde of...
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Bob Jones
bobjones@...
Jul 8, 2000 12:16 pm
It is possible to switch to Dvorak while in full-time employment, but best to make the switch while you are on holiday. I was a life-time 55 wpm Qwerty typist...
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Bob Jones
bobjones@...
Jul 8, 2000 12:16 pm
I have watched people trying to touch type at meetings using things as small (still quite big) as the Psion Five. I can do quite as well as them (if I want to)...
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Giles
giles@...
Jul 8, 2000 6:18 pm
Hello. Of interest to those who use palm-size devices (I'm a Palm III owner myself) is the "fitaly" keyboard, at http://www.twsolutions.com/fitaly/fitaly.htm ....
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Marshall Price
d021317c@...
Jul 9, 2000 12:38 am
Please, people! Keep the messages in plain text, won't you? HTML in e-mail violates RFC 1855 and is not nice -- in fact, it's insulting to those of us who...
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Giles
giles@...
Jul 9, 2000 5:22 pm
I use Fortres at the library I work at to prevent people from changing settings (or erasing system files) on the Public Access Computers. It's fairly flexible...
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Marcus Brooks
marcus@...
Jul 21, 2000 3:43 pm
I am sending this message to _both_ alt-keyboards mailing lists, so if you don't know what I'm talking about, please bear with me. Craig Richmond set up an...
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Armedia - Raymond M. ...
raymond@...
Jul 21, 2000 4:04 pm
Does anyone have any experience with the BAT Personal Chording Keyboard? (see http://www.infogrip.com/keybd.htm). I'm interested in buying a double set, for...
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Marcus Brooks
marcus@...
Jul 21, 2000 4:47 pm
... I found a little info in postings from the old alt-keyboards list: ... [...] ... -- Marcus Brooks <marcus@...> <http://www.mwbrooks.com>...
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Rolland Metzger
rolland@...
Jul 21, 2000 8:43 pm
I have come across a fantastic, but very challenging, program to learn DVORAK. The starting point is www.turnquist.org. Take it from there. If an A.K. 78...
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Rolland Metzger
rolland@...
Jul 21, 2000 9:38 pm
Does anyone out there have any information regarding Steve Ingram who is president of Dvorak International. He had a publication called "Striking Home" and a...
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Marshall Price
d021317c@...
Jul 22, 2000 5:10 am
Oops. Sorry. ... -- Marshall Price of Miami, FL | On my Dvorak keyboard-- comfy, d021317c@... | easy, fast, and accurate. Put ...
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Craig Richmond
craig@...
Jul 22, 2000 9:10 am
... First, I'm not affiliated with EGroups. Egroups makes money by putting advertising in their emails. If you're happy to read around it then it isn't a...
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Marshall Price
d021317c@...
Jul 22, 2000 10:52 am
Okay, okay, you win! Those are some mighty persuasive points you've got there, Craig. :) (I'm spoiled. We have a "freenet" here -- and people are leaving it...
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Marcus Brooks
marcus@...
Jul 22, 2000 5:05 pm
Can anybody out there can speak Armenian or maybe Russian? If so, and if you feel like it, you might want to drop a line to Grigor Sahakyan <grish@...>...
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Rolland Metzger
rolland@...
Jul 22, 2000 7:20 pm
To Marie: Re your inquiry re one handed keyboard tutors, I think I may have just the thing for you. Chect out www.turnquist.org. I thint Peter Turnquist's...
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Michael O'Donnell
mooseo@...
Jul 24, 2000 3:46 pm
Which reminds me: heaps of thanks to Craig for running the list for all these years. mike...
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Marcus Brooks
marcus@...
Jul 24, 2000 10:55 pm
Hear! Hear! Marcus ... -- Marcus Brooks <marcus@...> <http://www.mwbrooks.com>...
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Carol
acjeff@...
Jul 25, 2000 12:04 am
Yes Craig, Many thanks Allan Jeffrey acjeff@......
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carl.anton@...
Jul 25, 2000 7:46 am
Does anyone know who contributed the US Dvorak keyboard driver for Microsoft's operating systems? Carl Anton Stenling...
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carl.anton@...
Jul 25, 2000 7:50 am
The Norwegian Dvorak drivers for Windows has now been improved. The support for accelerator keys has been changed in such a way that it works also with...
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Marcus Brooks
marcus@...
Jul 25, 2000 11:34 am
As I recall, the folks at Keytime up in Washington persuaded Microsoft to include Dvorak support. Which is pretty cool if you think about it, because I think...
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Marcus Brooks
marcus@...
Jul 25, 2000 11:36 am
OK, I have to ask-- What are accelerator keys, and what is a virtual key code? Always learning, Marcus ... -- Marcus Brooks <marcus@...>...
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carl.anton@...
Jul 25, 2000 7:23 pm
... Accelerator keys are short cuts, eg. CTRL+B pressed to get bold text in Word. Virtual key codes are codes assigned to each key. These codes are used...
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Marcus Brooks
marcus@...
Jul 26, 2000 2:29 am
Aha! But what if a program really _does_ need to know the key position? The example I can think of offhand is something that implements an "embedded"; keypad...
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carl.anton@...
Jul 26, 2000 6:46 am
... As far as I know there is no high level way to find out the position of keys when you move virtual key codes. ... It is definitely a trade off between what...
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Marcus Brooks
marcus@...
Jul 26, 2000 12:10 pm
Hmmm. I wonder how MasterMind typing does its thing? It's supposed to be layout-agnostic. Marcus ... -- Marcus Brooks <marcus@...>...
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Paul Rankin
paul.rankin@...
Jul 26, 2000 8:23 pm
This is the text of a reply that I received from Peter Turnquist re the availability of one handed keyboard typing tutors from "Mastermind" "I wish that I...
