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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
Message-ID: <3255@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 16 Jun 91 10:23:18 GMT
References: <27098@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> <7270@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Reply-To: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <7270@vela.acs.oakland.edu> w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil writes:
>Instead of complaining about the lack of 8th bit support in various
>programs, how about supplying authors with some sample text files and
>a small program which configures their computer to GENERATE AND
>DISPLAY this text.

A good idea.  In fact, I have written exactly such a program - a device
driver which redefines the keyboard to produce Icelandic characters, and
redefines the character set (VGA reguired) to use CP 861 instead of CP 437.
This program was originally written because people here felt that the standard
solution was too expensive in RAM (all the MODE CON prepare etc.. commands
used 30K of RAM).

Any program which works with this will work practically anywhere in the world
(excluding countries which use a 16-bit character set), which makes it
ideal for testing.

I'll upload this program to SIMTEL as soon as I have written some
documentation for it.

-frisk