Thank you. I will try to get to this by the weekend. Jeremy
On Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 3:11 PM Robert Riebisch <r...@bttr-software.de> wrote: > Hi > > for Germany COUNTRY.SYS reports "." (dot) for the time separator, when > it should be ":" (colon). > > I noticed the error in FD 1.3 RC2 and FD 1.2, when using: > > !COUNTRY=049,,C:\FDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS > > in FDCONFIG.SYS. > > I didn't test FD 1.1. > > FD 1.0 behaves differently: Although it reports 001 for the current > country code (BX on return from AX=3800h, int21h), the time separator is > correct. > > I tracked the error down to: > > Bad data: > de_850 cnf 49,850,DMY,"E","U","R",0,0,".",",",".",".",1,2,_24; Germany > Tom > de_858 cnf 49,850,DMY,0D5h, 0,0,0,0,".",",",".",".",1,2,_24; Germany > de_437 cnf 49,437,DMY,"E","U","R",0,0,".",",",".",".",1,2,_24; Germany > > Good data: > de_850 cnf 49,850,DMY,"E","U","R",0,0,".",",",".",":",1,2,_24; Germany > Tom > de_858 cnf 49,858,DMY,0D5h, 0,0,0,0,".",",",".",":",1,2,_24; Germany > de_437 cnf 49,437,DMY,"E","U","R",0,0,".",",",".",":",1,2,_24; Germany > > In HELP -> "country" (not "country.sys") it is stated correctly as ":". > > If you don't patch 850 to 858 COUNTRY.SYS doesn't load with: > > !COUNTRY=049,858,C:\FDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS > > because 49 858 are no valid combination. > > This is how I patched current COUNTRY.SYS to make it work: > 00003984: 2E 3A > 00003995: 52 5A > 000039A4: 2E 3A > 000039C4: 2E 3A > > > And I think, for Austria the time separator should also be ":". (see > lines 3075-3077 of COUNTRY.ASM) > > *************************************************************************** > > I just found a second data error. > If you use: > > !COUNTRY=049,437,C:\FDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS > > loading COUNTRY.SYS aborts with error "could not find country info for > country ID 49". > > I fixed this by patching: > 0000041B: 5A B5 > 0000041C: 03 01 > > *************************************************************************** > > A third data error is regarding the "Space between value and currency > symbol" bit. It is reported as NO for codepage 437 and codepage 850. It > should be YES, because the symbol is "EUR" then. > For codepage 858 symbol is "€", so NO is correct here. > > I fixed this by patching: > 00003986: 01 03 > 000039C6: 01 03 > > *************************************************************************** > > Fourth error (?) > German MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows XP SP3 report ";" as the data-list > separator. > > I didn't find, where this is defined. So no patch from me. > > > As this mail and patch list got (and took) longer than expected, I'm > attaching a diff file. > > Maybe someone with access to the kernel sources can integrate this fix. > Thanks in advance! > > *************************************************************************** > > By the way: > To study the error and practice DOS programming I wrote a little tool to > show country information as reported by AX=3800h/INT 21h in some > "obscure" Pascal dialect from Japan called Cabezon. > The EXE file is currently available at > <https://www.bttr-software.de/tmp/COUNTRY.ZIP>. > I can provide source code too, if anyone is interested, but may be > currently of little use, because it depends on my expanded run-time > library for Cabezon, which is still pre-beta code. > > Output will be similar to: > ##### > Country code : 49 > Date format : 0001h (dd mm yy) > Time format : 01h (Bit 0: 24-hour clock = YES) > Thousands separator: . > Decimal separator : , > Date separator : . > Time separator : : > Data-list separator: , > Currency symbol : EUR > Currency format : 01h (Bit 0: Currency symbol follows value = YES > Bit 1: Space between value and currency symbol > = NO > Bit 2: Currency symbol replaces decimal point > = NO) > Currency precision : 2 > Case map routine : 00D8:11EF > ##### > > Cheers, > Robert > -- > +++ BTTR Software +++ > Home page: https://www.bttr-software.de/ > DOS ain't dead: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-kernel mailing list > Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel >
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