Kai,

an amazing amount of effort to get a german keyboard driver :<<


> Hi Eric,

> thanks for the quick reply. In the meantime I found out that I can load a
> German layout with just "keyb gr", just not the layout file itself or the
> /E switch that is mentioned in that article. I assume the gr.kl is 
> embedded in the keyboard.sys file. 
> That's good enough for me. I don't need the Euro sign. I use FreeDOS 
> mainly on a USB stick for flashing bios and controller cards on rack 
> machines and my own workstations. And it drives me crazy if I have to 
> input some special characters like - _ / which commonly occur. Each time I
> have to go by trial and error. And it seems you cannot type a ~ (tilde) at
> all on a German keyboard under an en-us layout. 
> Now I can :-)
> There is one thing still with keyb, though, that makes me wonder. 
> Shouldn't I be able to run it from autoexec.bat? I added "keyb gr" to it,
> but it isn't executed (or it doesn't work at this stage). I have to run it
> manually at the prompt. I'm also running keybw.com in autoexec.bat, right
> before that. I don't know what that does. I just have it in there and 
> don't know if I added it some time ago or if it came with the first 
> FreeDOS configuration. Should I remove it?

>> The KEYB layouts can be found here:
>> 
>> http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=kpdos

> That's the point where the circle starts (and ends). There are no plain
> keyboard layout files (.kl) in there, only the .key files. But these need
> kc for compiling to a .kl file. And there's nowhere you can get kc from.

in that case, KPDOS does not qualify as open source, and I recommend to
remove KPDOS from future releases of FreeDOS


> I don't need it now anymore it seems. But still wondering if it's really
> not available from anywhere.

>> Viel Spass!

> Gleichfalls, von Berlin nach Berlin :-)

> Kai


instead I recommend

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/mkeyb/mkeyb041.zip

and a command line

  KEYB GR

(note: I'm the author)



Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Kind regards
Tom Ehlert
+49-241-79886


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