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From: toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
Message-ID: <9734@sail.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 17 Jun 91 22:20:05 GMT
References: <27098@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> <3253@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <7326@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Reply-To: toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <7326@vela.acs.oakland.edu> w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil writes:
>
>By the way, I haven't received any sample text and/or exact
>instructions on how to configure a PC in the USA to allow authors to
>*see* what 8th bit users need.  Instead, I've received messages saying
>that I should look in the MS-DOS manual and figure it out for myself.
>Can you blame authors for ignoring answers like that?


When I was informed that NNANSI.SYS did not work with code pages I figured
it out (it's not easy with DOS documentation). 

This example assumes ega/vga display and the appropriate files in the
root directory. Your mileage may vary...

Add to config.sys:

DEVICE=display.sys con=(ega,437,1)

Add to autoexec.bat:

mode con cp prep=((850)ega.cpi)
mode con cp select=850
keyb be,,keyboard.sys


Now type on the top row keys, shifted and unshifted, and with ctrl-alt (or
right alt key if you have it.)

If you panic, hit ctrl-alt-f1 (ctrl-alt-f2 to get the other keyboard back).

BTW -- NNANSI.SYS runs with code pages providing it is installed before
display.sys (as the MS-DOS manual points out).

-- 
Tom Almy
toma@sail.labs.tek.com
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