Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/11/27/07:06:44
On 23 Nov 2000 11:15:14 GMT, Hans-Bernhard Broeker
<broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:
I have compiled a fairly fool proof, way of getting pipes working
for UK users of Win98 dos ..
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Howto: Fix Dos Pipes.
STEP 1:
Remove or rem out the following entrys in C:\autoexec.bat
mode con codepage prepare=((850) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
mode con codepage select=850
keyb uk,,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\keyboard.sys
STEP 2:
Add the following line to autoexec.bat
LH KEYB UK
STEP 3:
Remove the following entries from C:\config.sys
Country=044,850,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\country.sys
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This should fix things for most default installations. Obviously if
you have already modified your autoexec.bat and config.sys this may
not help at all.
In case anyone is not sure of why pipes dont defaultly work in dos for
us UK users, there are 2 chars both of which look like the pipe symbol
in dos, ...
The Correct one, has ascii code 124 and look likes this [ | ]
The Wrong one, has ascii code 221 and looks like this [ Ý ]
You you see on the line above depends on what you view this text with,
eg it will differ depending on viewer and font, for example, in most
dos setups, both chars look mostly identical, where as in the mail
client I am writting this in, ASCII 221 looks like a Y with a hat.
As someone has already said, if you dont want to mess with
autoexec.bat or config.sys you can still get the right pipe symbol by
holding down ALT, pressing 0,1,2,4 on the keypad, and then releasing
the ALT key.
Hope this helps someone ....
Alex
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