Hi Jerome, > Just a thought on using “undocumented” function calls.
COUNTRY=... and COUNTRY.SYS are not undocumented, but your choice of words hints at another idea: Do you suggest to introduce a TSR to handle string and key translations, to be used by FreeDOS apps? I think this would not save enough overhead compared to implementing translations in each app to be worth the incompatibility. Remember that our kitten implementation of catgets is very lightweight :-) >>> INT 21 U - DOS 4.0+ - DETERMINE IF CHARACTER REPRESENTS YES/NO RESPONSE >>> AX = 6523h >>> DL = character >>> DH = second character of double-byte character (if applicable) >>> Return: CF set on error >>> CF clear if successful >>> AX = type >>> 00h no >>> 01h yes >>> 02h neither yes nor no Note that MS DOS 3.3x did not yet support COUNTRY, so in theory, you may want your apps to have a fallback. On the other hand, really old MS DOS did not support file handles (only FCB) or directories. I think you can safely assume that all apps may require MS DOS 5 compatibility level :-) Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
