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I think the program is genmap, I  have it in my init sequence, but I
am not sure it does anything at this point.

On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 00:04:07 -0400,
Chris Brannon wrote:
> 
> Gregory Nowak <greg@gregn.net> writes:
> 
> > keymap
> > I believe this is the currently active kernel keymap. I'm not sure of
> > the format, probably what dumpkeys(1) and showkey(1) use. Echoing
> > different values here should allow for remapping speakup's review
> > commands besides remapping the keyboard as a whole.
> 
> AFAIK the Speakup keymap is just for remapping keys to Speakup
> functions.  It's a binary format, not related to dumpkeys etc.  You need
> a special program to compile a textual keymap into something that can be
> loaded into /sys/accessibility/speakup/keymap.  I may have source for
> that lying around here somewhere.  This is "here there be dragons"
> territory.  I think the only specification of the format is in the
> source code.
> 
> -- Chris
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