Dear list,
again it is the modern hardware which does not support one of
my best pieces of software. May be some of you technicians know the
explanation for it. I have tested my good old DOS keyboard driver
on a keyboard with two Pentiums. The access is very limited, because
the RightAlt obviously does not work on these machines.
I spent a lot of time in the past to get my keyboard work in a way
to support a maximum of characters on *one* keyboard. One key or a key
combination is supposed to represent one letter or symbol. I did not
like writing Czech texts with German names or German texts with Czech
names and write macros all the time with different shortcuts, or
permanently switching the codepage. The best DOS keyboard driver
(keyboard.sys) I ever found was made for DOS 3.30 and working
together with Czech codepage 895 (alias 867 alias 850 alias KeybCS2).
Since then I had always to fight with compatibility of keyb.com when
a new DOS version was knocking at the door. And until now
(WINDOWS 98) more or less successful. With the help of some divine
inspiration I even got a German sharp s added to the keyboard
map: It looks like this (I do not guarantee for diacritics):
+-------------------------------------------------------+
| deg |1 |2 |3 |4 |5 |6 |7 |8 |9 |0 |~ |' | | |
| ; |+ !|� @|� #|� $|� %|� ^|� &|� *|� {|� }|" -|deg =| \ |
+-------------------------------------------------------+
| Q | W | E | R | T | Z | U | I | O | P |� |( |
| q | w | e | r | t | z | u | i | o | p |� [|) ]|
+-----------------------------------------------+
| A | S | D | F | G | H | J | K | L |: | " |
| a | s | d | f | g | h | j | k | l |� ;| ' |
+-------------------------------------------+
| Y | X | C | V | B | N | M | < | > | ? |
| y | x | c | v | b | n | m | , | . | / |
+---------------------------------------+
total of 190 symbols, keys. The Pentium computers, however, refuse to
accept the key combination with AltGr. And now we start with this
Alt+Numbers for quite frequent symbols as !, ;, @, $, -, *.
First I thought it was due to WINDOWs. Then I blamed the super modern
keyboard with the WINDOWs buttons and a special cable. Then the
suspected DOS 7.10 that I ripped out of WINDOWS 98. Now I had the
opportunity to test it on another Pentium 166 with a clean DOS
6.0 and ordinary keyboards. It really does not work!
I know that there are some freeware programmes for key mapping. But
there are often conflicts with applications. And I do definitely not
need the language support on the command line!
Anybody got an idea?
With best regards
Christof Lange
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