This is kbd-0.85.tar.gz

The programs loadkeys, dumpkeys and showkey were derived from
Risto Kankkunen's kbd-0.81.

The font loading code goes back to the codepage package by
Joel Hoffman (joel@wam.umd.edu). (He tells me that the original
reference is: "From: p. 307 of _Programmer's Guide to PC & PS/2
Video Systems_ by Richard Wilton. 1987.  Microsoft Press".)

The kernel and user interface for the font loading closely follows
Eugene Crosser's intl_con package.

[Similar things were done earlier by
 Jerry Kaidor (tr2!jerry@abekas.com, jkaidor@synoptics.com) : fontpak,
 Peter Anvin (hpa@nwu.edu) and Pavel Zaboj (xzaboj@vse.cs)
but none of their code was used.
However, I took the *.psf fonts from SLS:/etc/national/fonts.
The font default8x16 is from my hardware. Bruno Haible contributed
def2_8x16.]

This package contains keytable files and keyboard utilities compatible
with kernel version 0.99pl14y and probably some newer ones.

This distribution contains no binaries - the sources try to adapt
to kernel version by using #ifdef for various ioctl's, so compile
them yourself.
To install this package, unpack it somewhere and issue the commands
"make" and "make install". This copies the utilities to /usr/bin,
man pages to /usr/man/man{1,5,8} and data files to the subdirectories
keytables, consolefonts and consoletrans of /usr/lib/kbd.


Report problems with this package to Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>.

March 1994

