Hi all, I hereby announce the new version of KEYB, FD-KEYB 2.0 pre-release 4, a major bugfix release since the previous version.
You can get it at ibiblio as usual: BINARY: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kb2pre4x.zip SOURCE: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kb2pre4s.zip FEATURES: - 8088 compatible. I have removed all the 80286+ specific code, so it should now run even in PC/XT. Testings welcome. - New switch: /L=m Allows the choice of a submapping at boot (provided that it is compatible with current codepage). Useful for some layouts, such as Russian, having different submappings for the same codepage, so that you can boot KEYB as either cirylic or latin. - Whenever KEYBOARD.SYS DOES exist, but does NOT contain the layout sought, then <layout>.KL is tried BUGFIXES: - A bug in the loading high of the data has been fixed, so that the correct allocation strategy is restored. This was found by the DOSBOX developers (MANY THANKS TO THEM!). I hope this also clears the strange problems at loading high with FreeCOM (?) - Strange missbehaviour of the DEL key with the chosen decimal character (FIXED) - STRINGS not working (FIXED) - Unable to load a read-only (R attribute on file system) file (FIXED) - When trying to find a layout in a library, the first layout to START AS the given layout is loaded (instead of the first layout to MATCH the given layout) - The int 9h handler is chained with STRINGS, even in PC/AT machines or with /E (FIXED: it is only chained in PC/XT or /9) - Copyright year is missprinted (FIXED) - Strange output in certain error cases (FIXED) - README.TXT quite outdated (updated, and help file too) Now I'll be touching some minor things on KC/KLIB (the compiler and librarian), but I give a brief list of what's forthcomming for the next release of KEYB, the last one before I freeze code for the 2.0 final release): - Include the LFN support that I was contributed (not in this version, sorry) - Allow to execute commands within Strings - SAFE MODE: prevention for KEYB bombs and such - Beeping Cheers to all and happy testing! Please report any problem/bug found with this KEYB or KC/KLIB. Aitor ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
