Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > VER does not report a DOS version, only a > FreeCOM-0.84 version. I think I'm running 1.1, but only the core. There is no > bin > directory. Try "ver /r" or check the file date of "kernel.sys" (but neither is

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > But I have the same problem with it. Adding "keyb gr" to autoexec.bat does > not run it. It seems autoexec.bat isn't executed at all. Shouldn't it run > automatically once DOS is loaded? Normally (but not

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-18 Thread Ralf Quint
On 8/18/2016 6:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Tom Ehlert wrote on Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:00:55 +0200: > >> an amazing amount of effort to get a german keyboard driver > Not really once you know that you don't need the .kl file. > According to > http://help.fdos.org/de/hhstndrd/base/keyb.htm > you have

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-18 Thread Tom Ehlert
Hallo Herr Kai Schaetzl, am 18. August 2016 um 15:31 schrieben Sie: > Tom Ehlert wrote on Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:00:55 +0200: >> an amazing amount of effort to get a german keyboard driver > Not really once you know that you don't need the .kl file. > According to >

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Tom Ehlert wrote on Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:00:55 +0200: > an amazing amount of effort to get a german keyboard driver Not really once you know that you don't need the .kl file. According to http://help.fdos.org/de/hhstndrd/base/keyb.htm you have to run (as an example) "keyb GR,,GR GR.KL /E". You

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rugxulo wrote on Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:35:27 -0500: > Assuming you have the "full" (official) FD 1.1 install, do you not > find KC.EXE anywhere? No, I don't have kc. I'm not running FreeDOS 1.1 iso. I don't remember the history. I grabbed files for FreeDOS b1.0 and 1.1 some time ago from a zip.

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-15 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > >>> The KEYB layouts can be found here: >>> >>> http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=kpdos > >> That's the point where the circle starts (and ends). There are no plain >> keyboard layout files (.kl) in there, only

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-15 Thread Tom Ehlert
Kai, an amazing amount of effort to get a german keyboard driver :<< > Hi Eric, > thanks for the quick reply. In the meantime I found out that I can load a > German layout with just "keyb gr", just not the layout file itself or the > /E switch that is mentioned in that article. I assume the

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-15 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Eric Auer wrote on Sun, 14 Aug 2016 17:50:31 +0200: Hi Eric, thanks for the quick reply. In the meantime I found out that I can load a German layout with just "keyb gr", just not the layout file itself or the /E switch that is mentioned in that article. I assume the gr.kl is embedded in the

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

2016-08-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Kai, > I've been trying for the last two hours or so to find out how to use a > German keyboard with FreeDOS. There is enough information, but some... The easiest driver is probably MKEYB: http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=mkeyb It does not need extra files and has several popular