[ALUG] Idle question about keyboard bindings

[Ruth Bygrave]

> So, what happens if you plug a non-Apple USB keyboard into a Mac
> running MacOS? Does it get all the keys right?

More-or-less. I think the MS Wireless one actually has explicit  
Intellitype software for Mac, which handles that, and there's very  
easy-to-find software out there for swapping Command and Alt from the  
Windows Way (or now I think of it it might actually be in Sys Prefs  
-- but since there are so many Mac users doing that, it's easy to get.

The problem I had when I switched is that there are still so few  
switchers (comparatively to people who grew up on Macs because their  
family had one or they were in graphic design) that if you Google  
it's not as easy as it should be to find the keyboard hack to bind  
shift-2 to @. Actually, should glance at David Pogue's book on Tiger  
Switcher Edition (O'Reilly), because that would almost certainly  
cover this sort of Mac-as-a-Second-Language problem.

Regards, R