mike@erix.ericsson.se (Mike Williams) (02/06/90)
I recently helped a friend to set up an Atari 8088 machine. After phoning the shop that sold the machine I got the (Swedish) keyboard I was using to work correctly by giving the command keyb sv,,keyboard.sys,102 in autoexec.bat and the line country=046 in the config.sys. The last argument to the keyb command was undocumented in the manual. The manual insisted that one should give a code page in the keyb command and in one example had a code page in the country line. When I did this I got another keyboard which was nearly, but not quite correct. What is a code page? It seems that only two code pages exist, 437 and 850, where do these numbers come from and what do they mean? What is the difference between setting the code page in chcp, keyb and in the country line? What is the nlsfunc command supposed to do? Whether I used it or not didn't make any difference at all. The Atari manual for 3.30 Ms-Dos delivered with the machine must have been written by someone who is as confused as I am. Is there a decent description of this jungle? Mike Williams mike@erix.ericsson.se