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Copyright (c) 1996 Juergen Hannken-Illjes
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.Dd $Mdocdate: May 6 2009 $ .Dt KBD 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm kbd .Nd set national keyboard translation .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm kbd .Fl l .Nm kbd .Op Fl q .Ar name .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm is used to change the keyboard encoding. The encoding is set to national keyboard layout .Ar name , and a short message is printed to stdout.

p The execution of .Nm normally occurs in the system multi-user initialization file

a /etc/rc using the encoding defined in

a /etc/kbdtype .

p The options are as follows: l -tag -width Ds t Fl l List all available keyboard encodings. t Fl q Quiet mode. No message is printed unless an error occurs. .El .Sh FILES l -tag -width "/etc/kbdtypeXXX" t Pa /etc/kbdtype Default national encoding. .El