Solaris 8 and Thinkpad keyboards

Hi,
I've succesfully installed Solaris 8 on my Thinkpad 600 and also on VirtualPC on my Thinkpad T30. On both systems I have the same problem:
While installing I choosed a German Keyboard Layout. Now everthing works exceptt the key with <,> and | does not work (it does not create any character) . On Thinkpad Laptops with german keyboard layout that's the key beetween the leftt shift key and the Y.
All other keys (incl. the Umlaute) work fine. The behaviour is the same on the console and while running CDE.
I already found the necessary file to change the keycodes. But : I don't know the keycode for the key. How can I detect this key?
It seems, that the codes used by Solaris are different to the codes used in DOS for example.
regards
Bernd

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