Ciao, Eduardo,
We strive for MS-DOS compatibility, and MS-DOS, PC-DOS, PTS-DOS, OS/2,
Windows 9x and Windows NT all use the same format that is so well
described in the RBIL tables 2619-2622. So I chose that.
IMHO, the COUNTRY.SYS format does not affect compatibility, as the
information is
Hello,
All that MS does - enclose _public_ information into own file format.
What is permitted for Zeus, is not permitted for mortals! :-( That's
exactly what I meant when I wrote that Microsoft are the biggest thefts.
Even their first Basic interpreter was from public domain sources. Not
Lucho wrote:
We strive for MS-DOS compatibility, and MS-DOS, PC-DOS, PTS-DOS, OS/2,
Windows 9x and Windows NT all use the same format that is so well
described in the RBIL tables 2619-2622. So I chose that.
IMHO, the COUNTRY.SYS format does not affect compatibility, as the
information is
Lucho, impressive progress.
Though I don't use any COUNTRY/codepage/keyboard_layout things myself,
this can be quite usefull.
I can imagine Aitor being happy, for example.
He does a lot with these things.
Now only NLSFUNC is missing (in progress by Eduardo Casino)?
btw, no source for your
Hello Eduardo,
Lucho, Steffen, everybody, we should have some discussion to determine
which COUNTRY.SYS format we should use in FreeDOS.
1'st let me state that I never used NLSFUNC, so I may be the wrong
person.
2'nd, all I needed for FreeDOS was 24 hour time/european date,
and I implemented
Hi,
tom ehlert escribió:
Hello Eduardo,
Lucho, Steffen, everybody, we should have some discussion to determine
which COUNTRY.SYS format we should use in FreeDOS.
1'st let me state that I never used NLSFUNC, so I may be the wrong
person.
Well, neither do I because as I never change
Hello Aitor,
Yes, but as I mentioned, the problem is that, how do we get collating
tables, etc for other countries than US and Germany? We could rely on
user's efforts to create those tables, but this can be quite laborious
(provided that, for copyright issues, the COUNTRY.SYS of the
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote:
Yes, but as I mentioned, the problem is that, how do we get collating
tables, etc for other countries than US and Germany? We could rely on
user's efforts to create those tables, but this can be quite laborious
Probably best to have a look
Hi Bart,
Thanks for pointing out!
Actually I ignore if Linux works with some notion similar to codepges at
all (I once tried to port a single ASCII chart drawing program from DOS
to Linux and found out lots of blanks #219 in the table.
If Unicode is the only collating table present, as you say
