Re: [Freedos-user] IDLE HALT=1 is working on my laptop?

2023-10-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi Ramon, If I use FDAPM APMDOS in my fdauto.bat I get the following message: Performing action: APMDOS If APMDOS slows APM not available, skipping APM setup. Going resident. This is because I have freedos poorly configured or because my hardware does not support it. (My laptop is

Re: [Freedos-user] R-Alt does not act like L-Alt

2023-10-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi Aitor, I would assume that right alt DELIBERATELY does not act like a generic ALT key in EDIT: In German, for example, you need that right "Alt Gr" key for some accented characters, so it must not act as a function shift key. I remember not being able to use some other editor exactly

Re: [Freedos-user] Some USB-Stick problems

2023-10-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi again, see the new, separate thread for more USB-printer solutions :-) A new thought: I got a VERY good suggestion for the problem of FAT filesystems and file contents getting corrupted by those power outages when the drivers restart the engines of the trucks. You remember, I wondered

Re: [Freedos-user] R-Alt does not act like L-Alt

2023-10-28 Thread Aitor Santamaría via Freedos-user
Hello Eric, You are right. In Spanish it happens the same, and I assume in many other keyboard distributions out there. So, closed case. If someone wants R-ALt to act like L-Alt, maybe they can try the KEYB trick and let us know. Aitor On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 at 21:07, Eric Auer via

Re: [Freedos-user] IDLE HALT=1 is working on my laptop?

2023-10-28 Thread Ramon Riera Marès via Freedos-user
Eric, thank you very much for your answer. In my fdconfig.sys it is correct (without space) sorry. If I use FDAPM APMDOS in my fdauto.bat I get the following message: Performing action: APMDOS If APMDOS slows APM not available, skipping APM setup. Going resident. This is because I have

Re: [Freedos-user] Using USB printers with a parallel port adapters or software tricks

2023-10-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi again, somebody in another DOS forum pointed out that you can get ready to use LPT2USB online, although expensive, from various shops: https://www.future-x.de/rotronic-secomp-parallel-adapter-usb-ieee-1284-schwarz-p-7343484/

Re: [Freedos-user] KEY language specification for custom keyboard layout?

2023-10-28 Thread Aitor Santamaría via Freedos-user
Hello there! The documentation for the KEY language is included within the KC/KLIB binary distribution: DOC\KC\KEY.TXT For some reason, I am no longer able to find the distribution of KC/KLIB within Ibiblio or GitLab (maybe Jerome can help?) But fortunately, there is an online copy at:

Re: [Freedos-user] R-Alt does not act like L-Alt

2023-10-28 Thread Aitor Santamaría via Freedos-user
Hello, Sounds like it could be a bug in Edit, I'll see about it when I have a little time. Now for the original question: is it possible to make R-Alt work like L-Alt? It should be possible to do that with FD-KEYB.The idea is to intercept Right-Alt and then emit Left-Alt, and get back to the