Hello,

2008/9/28 Der kleine Beitrag eines Computeranwenders (Users)
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> I'm a DOS user since the early 90's, I used DR DOS 5.0, later MS-DOS 7.00 and
> DR-DOS/OpenDOS 7 a lot, always together with 4DOS.
> I always removed DISPLAY.SYS, MODE CON ... and just left COUNTRY=49,850,
> C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS in my start-up files.
>
> It made the date/time look more european (DD.MM.YY instead of MM/DD/YY, which
> is so mixed up... [:-)] )
That's COUNTRY stuff, yes.

> I figured that it doesn't make sense to waste memory for german translations
> when most of the programs were running in english language anyway.
>
> So, yes, it is very complex and confusing...

The idea is that after you've load it all (DISPLAY, KEYB, NLSFUNC,
...), your only had to work it out with CHCP:

CHCP 850

Aitor

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