Hi! 4-Ноя-2004 17:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
ase> Divide tools in three types: ase> (a) Those that implement the national settings (that is the character you ase> use for thousand separators, etc) and codepages for the kernel (filename ase> tables and such) ase> DISPLAY.SYS ase> Kernel's COUNTRY= DISPLAY.SYS used only for fonts supports, so it not belongs into this category. ase> (b) Tools that implement the codepage support for the character devices: ase> DISPLAY.SYS ase> KEYB ase> PRINTER.SYS (not existing) ase> (c) Tools to configure the other stuff: ase> MODE ase> NLSFUNC (not existing) ase> CHCP [...] ase> (1) In order to save bytes to American users, codepage support and such is ase> NOT implemented by default in kernel and/or devices. That is why you need ase> to load them: In _given_ case I not agreed: me (as Russian user) not need thousands of codepages like 932, 10878, etc. So, supporting for codepages through loding requested information from external, independed files is good idea. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idU88&alloc_id065&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel