Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > VER does not report a DOS version, only a > FreeCOM-0.84 version. I think I'm running 1.1, but only the core. There is no > bin > directory. Try "ver /r" or check the file date of "kernel.sys" (but neither is 100% guaranteed since any

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > But I have the same problem with it. Adding "keyb gr" to autoexec.bat does > not run it. It seems autoexec.bat isn't executed at all. Shouldn't it run > automatically once DOS is loaded? Normally (but not always) it is called "autoexec

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-18 Thread Ralf Quint
On 8/18/2016 6:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Tom Ehlert wrote on Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:00:55 +0200: > >> an amazing amount of effort to get a german keyboard driver > Not really once you know that you don't need the .kl file. > According to > http://help.fdos.org/de/hhstndrd/base/keyb.htm > you have t

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-18 Thread Tom Ehlert
Hallo Herr Kai Schaetzl, am 18. August 2016 um 15:31 schrieben Sie: > Tom Ehlert wrote on Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:00:55 +0200: >> an amazing amount of effort to get a german keyboard driver > Not really once you know that you don't need the .kl file. > According to > http://help.fdos.org/de/hhstndr

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Tom Ehlert wrote on Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:00:55 +0200: > an amazing amount of effort to get a german keyboard driver Not really once you know that you don't need the .kl file. According to http://help.fdos.org/de/hhstndrd/base/keyb.htm you have to run (as an example) "keyb GR,,GR GR.KL /E". You nee

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rugxulo wrote on Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:35:27 -0500: > Assuming you have the "full" (official) FD 1.1 install, do you not > find KC.EXE anywhere? No, I don't have kc. I'm not running FreeDOS 1.1 iso. I don't remember the history. I grabbed files for FreeDOS b1.0 and 1.1 some time ago from a zip. It

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-15 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > Yet another page mentions cpidos. But that contains only some ega.sys > files and I'm not sure what they are for. Video driver? Maybe I'm the wrong person to summarize this. I've only lightly dabbled in i18n for DOS (and not lately),

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-15 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > >>> 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

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-15 Thread Tom Ehlert
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.

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-15 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Eric Auer wrote on Sun, 14 Aug 2016 17:50:31 +0200: 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 ke

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Kai, > I've been trying for the last two hours or so to find out how to use a > German keyboard with FreeDOS. There is enough information, but some... The easiest driver is probably MKEYB: http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=mkeyb It does not need extra files and has several popular layo

[Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-14 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I've been trying for the last two hours or so to find out how to use a German keyboard with FreeDOS. There is enough information, but some of the files cannot be downloaded anywhere. I'm running in circles. Or I'm missing something obvious. What I found out: I have to use keyb with a command li