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Re: French keyboard


VARDI Ilan wrote:

> Thanks for the information. However, changing the autoexec.bat file
> has no effect, since after rebooting, the previous autexec.bat file
> returns, i.e., my changes are forgotten by the system. Moreover, my
> autoexec.bat file does not even contain a keyboard command line, only
> PATH setting. Thus, it may be possible that the problem, and therefore
> the solution lies at a deeper level of DOS horribleness.

That is  the word !

Have you tried to play with `keyb' command in DOS console (e.g. `keyb /?') ?
On Win98SE, I get
Configure a keyboard for a specific language. (....)


>
>
> -ilan
>
>    Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:27:16 +0200
>    From: Jerome Benoit <JGMBenoit@wanadoo.fr>
>
>    For DOS I guess you have to look in the `c:\autoexec.bat' in the
>    Windows root directory: In mine I read:
>
>    mode con codepage select=850
>    keyb uk,,c\windows\COMMAND\keyboard.sys
>
>    I guess that your get a similar line:
>    so you can try to set a new keyboard by modifying this line and reboot your
>    computer.
>
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