Hi Andreas, > I always removed DISPLAY.SYS, MODE CON ... and just left > COUNTRY=49,850,C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS in my start-up files.
How about COUNTRY=049,437 or COUNTRY=049 then, the country.sys file only adds Umlaut alphabetic sorting and Umlaut upper / lower case things and only with the unstable kernel branch. With a "normal" kernel the COUNTRY=049 already triggers the German date / time display and the 437 (telling which font is in your VGA BIOS) is only relevant for DISPLAY / MODE CON CP which you omit (so you have no Euro sign in DOS tststs ;-)). > I figured that it doesn't make sense to waste memory for german > translations when most of the programs were running in english Well depending on how you install FreeDOS you get a German command.com shell :-). Various other programs support German if you set the LANG and NLSPATH variables, see the NLS dir in your installed FreeDOS. Suggestions for more translations are welcome, but sometimes there are too few or too many text messages in a program which makes translation too easy or too hard. Too easy means "adding LANG support would not be worth the effort when there are only 3 messages anyway" ;-). I think VGA BIOS with non 437 font are indeed very exotic. You could load a font with another tool than DISPLAY, though, and then the COUNTRY line could tell DISPLAY that already some other font is loaded...? > DOS 5.0 (on my computer, at that time) had different fonts and > that one could "load" such a font using MODE or something. This is exactly what DISPLAY does: It loads user fonts in RAM and you use MODE to tell DISPLAY which font it should use :-) FreeDOS already comes with a nice collection of fonts which are stored in CPI or CPX files. Problem is that DISPLAY does use quite a bit of RAM. By reducing compatibility with certain programs, you could move most of that into using XMS instead. Then some programs would behave as if you have no DISPLAY and most other programs will still use your CPI font nicely :-). > BTW I didn't like the zeros "0" in MS-DOS 4.01 - it had a dot > inside the circle, DR DOS had the zeros crossed out with a line Okay so either this is a difference in your VGA BIOSes or you did use DISPLAY and MODE to load a MS or DR DOS font yourself. Eric :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
