Instead of filling out a binary country.sys by hand, you might want to use localcfg.exe - much more reliable. It will produce a country.sys file with all the parameters you wish.
http://localcfg.sourceforge.net Of course, all this is pointless if your program won't listen to country preferences anyway. Mateusz On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 22:57:47 +0000, Denis St-Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > vDOS is very nice. Unfortunately also blocked with Dir-command related > issues with my program (file dates in style 2-10-98 intead of 02-10-98). > I posted a topic on their site. I also found they not support > modification of the global Country setting (locked to 1). > > About VMWARE and VMSMOUNT. I think it's nearly equivalent to what we > have at work with Microsoft VirtualPC. I didn't try sendkeys automation > through this heavier layer but I will give it a try if I cannot use vDOS > and DOSBOX. > > Eric, I found you are author of MODE.COM !! To set the codepage I added > this in my autoexec.bat: > DISPLAY CON=(ega,863,) > MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((863) %dosdir%\cpi\ega9.cpx) > > I don't know how far I can follow you in the TSR trail to get country > informations but I'm interested to learn at least up to the next > obstacle :-) I filled the table you showed to me, if it's not taking too > much of your time: > >> Offset Size Description (Table 01399) >> 00h WORD date format [2 Y-M-D] >> 02h 5 BYTEs ASCIZ currency symbol string ['$'.. so I imagine it is >> 24h, 00h ?] 07h 2 BYTEs ASCIZ thousands separator [you want this >> to be 20h, 00h...Yes] >> 09h 2 BYTEs ASCIZ decimal separator ['.' = 2E, 00h ?] >> 0Bh 2 BYTEs ASCIZ date separator ['-' = 2D, 00h ?] >> 0Dh 2 BYTEs ASCIZ time separator [':' = 3A, 00h ?] >> 0Fh BYTE currency format [not relevant for you? probably not, >> answers bellow] >> bit 2 = set if currency symbol replaces >> decimal point > [I would say No, do > not replaces decimal > point] >> bit 1 = number of spaces between value >> and currency symbol > [I would guess 1 > space] >> bit 0 = 0 if currency symbol precedes >> value >> 1 if currency symbol >> follows value > [Not sure but I would > guess bit 0 =1] >> 10h BYTE number of digits after decimal in currency > [not relevant? maybe not but I would > say 2 digits] >> 11h BYTE time format [you say you want 24h time, so make this >> 1--Yes] >> bit 0 = 0 if 12-hour clock >> 1 if 24-hour clock >> 12h DWORD address of case map routine [could point to RETF >> opcode] >> (FAR CALL, AL = character to map to >> upper case [>= 80h]) >> 16h 2 BYTEs ASCIZ data-list separator [not relevant? who uses >> this?] >> 18h 10 BYTEs reserved [so not relevant for you by definition...] > > > To answer your question about our old MS-DOS program: We have used it in > MS-DOS and winXP-win32 console only. It is described at > <http://www.dynatest.com/elmod>. There is not so many users since it is > addressed to a very specialized domain. Only the newer Windows version > is supported by the maker. > > Thanks, Denis > > > Le Dimanche 19 février 2017 8h39, Ulrich Hansen > <my.gr...@mailbox.org> a écrit : > > > > > Am 18.02.2017 um 23:22 schrieb Denis St-Lau <d...@ymail.com>: > Without the DOSBOX kernel, we don't have the "mount" command and we > constantly have to mount/unmount the DOS disk image from the GNU/Linux > or Windows host (or use FTP networking) to exchange data. This is > tedious and the disk image gets corrupted if simultaneously mounted or > written on by the Host and the DOS. > > Yes, you are completely right about that. > But please take a look at a new project: „EtherDFS“ by Mateusz > Viste.http://etherdfs.sourceforge.net If your host is running GNU/Linux, > you can start EtherSRV on the host and EtherDFS on your DOS guest. > On the host go to the directory, that EtherSRV is mounting. Share it > with Samba to your Windows clients. > That’s it. You have now what everybody wants: A network disk in FreeDOS, > shared with everybody in your LAN, and still 618 K conventional memory > free. > The only downsides, as I see it:- At the moment EtherSRV will change > timestamps of received files to the actual date and time.- On VirtualBox > a guest with EtherDFS can not reach (yet) an EtherSRV running on a > machine outside the host.- EtherSRV is running on GNU/Linux only. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
