Hi guys, There was recently somebody on SourceForge asking this:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3078800&group_id=5109&atid=355109 xarilaos: "How can i install the greek language?." I responded with the usual generic answer (use KEYB, CPIDOS, DISPLAY, MODE ... kernel 2039/2037 COUNTRY.SYS ... Mined, Blocek). However, I'm not sure if that's really sufficient to help someone to use FreeDOS correctly. Better to show them than vaguely describe it. Long story short, I've made a new single-floppy image for this (unpublished, so far, ask if curious ... and yes, I have full srcs!!). For lack of a better name, I call it "i18n-DOS". It's crammed pretty full of stuff, I tried really hard to be useful! It uses kernel 2039 and COUNTRY.SYS, and it more or less works ... except for KEYB. For some reason, every computer I try, every memory manager, even disabling certain things (CTmouse), it *always* dumps an exception when trying to load KEYB. In fact, KEYB never loads correctly. (Part of this was my confusion with trying to learn what Greek needs, 737? 869?) Whatever, but it's not even working as good as I previously confirmed (year ago?) with cp853 (Esperanto). I almost want to think it's a 2039 kernel bug, but I highly doubt it. :-( Actually, I think I even briefly swapped in "old" 2037, but that didn't work either. Who knows, maybe it's my floppy being bad, but I did (briefly) compare CRC32 of the KEYB*.SYS files, and everything matched okay. So I have no idea. Just slightly frustrating because KEYB is a big advantage, IMHO, over manually using whatever editor's method is otherwise available (Mined, Blocek ... though those truly rock, and yes I crammed them on there too, even Foxtype, heheh). XMGR, HIMEMX -> "Invalid opcode" (is that the kernel saying that???) JEMM386 -> "Exception at CS:IP 0000:0000 ... Press Esc. to quit". I'm just lucky it doesn't crash the whole thing, sheesh. Just curious if anybody knows what's wrong, what to try next, etc. I think it would be nice to "demo" the i18n features of FreeDOS. (Maybe I should try putting the files on a more reliable medium like hard drive and see if that helps. I would definitely feel foolish if that was the solution. But anyways ....) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
