Re: Six-key Entry

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Mario,
The program will have to use console mode first, and then be ported to 
X, or rahter, Gnome.
John
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Mario Lang wrote:

> "John J. Boyer" <director@chpi.org> writes:
> 
> > Is there a Linux program which implements six-key entry, that is, uses the 
> > sdfjkl keys as a Braillewriter keyboard?
> 
> AFAIK, no.
> 
> > Is there a dos program with this feature which is open-source?
> 
> hmm, even if it existed, I don't think you could reuse
> alot of code.  First question would be, is this targeted for X, or
> console usage?  In X, it may probably be quite easy.
> In the console, you'll have to switch the keyboard into
> raw-mode first, and that means your program will only work
> on a local console.
> 
> >From there, it should be really trivial, given a braille->ascii and vice-versa
> table.
> 
> 

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