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KEYTAB-LILO.PL(8)					     KEYTAB-LILO.PL(8)

NAME
       keytab-lilo - compile keytables files for use with LILO

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/sbin/keytab-lilo [-p R old_code = new_code ] ...  [default_layout]
       kbd_layout

DESCRIPTION
       keytab-lilo is a program which compiles keytable	 definitions  (in  the
       format  specified  in  keytables(5)) into a format which can be used by
       lilo(8) to set the keyboard  type  when	booting	 [using	 the  keytable
       parameter in /etc/lilo.conf].

       kbd_layout should be the name of a map file which specifies the desired
       keyboard layout. This file may be a gzip(1) compressed map. If no  file
       extension  is  given,  .map.gz  is assumed. If the full pathname is not
       specified, /usr/share/keymaps/ is assumed.

       Since lilo essentially needs to know the differences between  the  BIOS
       keyboard	 mapping  and  the  one	 you  require, the default_layout file
       should contain a keytables(5) file for the BIOS default mapping. If  no
       default_layout file is specified, us.map.gz is used.

       keytab-lilo  writes  the output translation table as a binary string to
       standard output, so you should redirect it to a	suitable  file.	  lilo
       has  no	particular  restrictions  on  the name of keyboard translation
       files, but the suggested naming convention and location	is  /boot/map‐
       ping.ktl (where .ktl stands for "Keyboard Table for Lilo").

OPTIONS
       -p     R old_code = new_code
	      Specifies	 corrections  ("patches") to the mapping obtained from
	      the translation table files. E.g. if pressing the upper case "A"
	      should yield an at sign, -p 65=64 would be used. The  -p	option
	      can be repeated any number of times. The codes can also be given
	      as  hexadecimal or as octal numbers if they are prefixed with 0x
	      or 0, respectively.

EXAMPLES
       keytab-lilo dvorak >/boot/dvorak.ktl

	      This is the most common form of invocation; it  simply  compiles
	      the  given map file (in this case dvorak) and puts the result in
	      /boot/dvorak.ktl.

AUTHOR
       Werner Almesberger (almesber@bernina.ethz.ch).
       Peter Maydell (pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk) wrote this manual page.

SEE ALSO
       lilo(8), keytables(5), gzip(1)

				  April 1998		     KEYTAB-LILO.PL(8)
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