Hi,

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 at 16:17, Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote:

> Kai,
>
> an amazing amount of effort to get a german keyboard driver :<<
>

Due to an incomplete documentation (that the user read), a not very obvious
file misplacement, and by following Microsoft's DOS compatibility on
commandline.


> > That's the point where the circle starts (and ends). There are no plain
> > keyboard layout files (.kl) in there, only the .key files. But these need
> > kc for compiling to a .kl file. And there's nowhere you can get kc from.
>
> in that case, KPDOS does not qualify as open source, and I recommend to
> remove KPDOS from future releases of FreeDOS
>

This is the same as, remove all the utilities as the packages do not
include the .O files.
The source files (KEY) are included. If you want the KL files, compile it
yourself.

Aitor

>
> instead I recommend
>
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/mkeyb/mkeyb041.zip
>
> and a command line
>
>   KEYB GR
>
> (note: I'm the author)
>

As said, if codepage management after boot is not an issue for you, then it
is fine.

Aitor
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