On 5/3/2020 9:15 AM, Ian Park wrote:
Hi Ralf (I deduce from the time difference that it's "good morning"
with you...)
Well, yes, though while I am German, I am living in the country side of
Los Angeles, but had left early for some community event around 8am... ;-)
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...
The above line is a REMark, it will not be executed unless you remove
the "REM " from the beginning of that line. Don't now right now what the
right code page (the second parameter, here 858) for the UK is but you
could just replace the US with UK and remove the rest of the line, it is
optional.
I'll have to rake around with DuckDuckGo...
Yuk, I dread DuckDuckNoGo, I always ended up with more questions rather
than answers.
I am a bit confused with the description you gave of the location of the
\ key, can you post a picture of the keyboard you're using (or a link to
a web site showing the keyboard layout). I have in the past (a long time
ago while still living in Germany) run a couple of times into keyboards
that had some weird scan codes. mostly with not so standard keyboard
layouts...
Ralf
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