On 03/05/2020 15:48, Ralf Quint wrote:
On 5/3/2020 1:49 AM, Ian Park wrote:
Good morning
Over the past few days I've progressed as far as installing FreeDOS
1.2 on an old PC (HP Deskpro low profile, 1700MHz Pentium, 512MB RAM,
20GB HDD, CD ROM drive). Still early stages, I'm finding my way
around before I try to move on to connecting to a network (but that's
another story...).
I've hit an oddity; FreeDOS doesn't recognise the backslash (\) key
on my USB UK keyboard. The other two PCs to which I connect it
through a USB sharing switch (the one which I'm using to compose this
email, running Linux Mint, and another running Windows 10) both
recognise it. When I get time I'll try the US keyboard driver to see
whether that recognises the \ key, but fairly obviously that would be
rather less than ideal, since it's a UK keyboard!
Can anyone offer a suggestion to deal with this problem, please?
Which keyboard "driver" are you loading? With which parameters and
where is it loaded?
For all non-US ASCII keyboards, you need to load "KEYB" in
autoexec.bat, for a UK keyboard this would be "keyb UK"
Ralf
Hi Ralf (I deduce from the time difference that it's "good morning" with
you...)
Thank you for the pointer. I checked my autoexec.bat, and as set up when
I installed FreeDOS it loaded mkeyb UK in conventional memory. I tried
replacing mkeyb with KEYB and restarted (even a full shutdown and power
up again, to make sure), but the \ key still didn't respond. I noticed
that autoexec.bat has a line
REM KEYB US,858,%dosdir%\bin\keyboard.sys
I tried pasting the extra characters into the line for KEYB UK &
restarted, but still no joy. I suspect that I would need to climb into
the keyboard map file to deal with this, but it's so long since I did
anything vaguely serious with DOS (my first ever PC was at work: an IBM
XT with a magnificent 10MB hard drive...) that I can't remember where to
start looking... I'll have to rake around with DuckDuckGo...
Best regards
Ian
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Ian Park
email: i.d.c.p...@chalmers-park.name
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