Date:	Fri, 5 Jan 2001 20:55:59 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Paul O. Bartlett" <bartlett AT smart DOT net>
To:	OpenDOS List <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	DXR-DOS 7.03 CON: Codepage Switching Problem
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    I am still setting up DR-DOS 7.03, but here is a problem I cannot
find addressed in the DOSBOOK.

    I sometimes want to use extended characters for languages other
than English, in particular the ISO-8859-1/Latin-1 and ISO-8859-3/Latin-3 
character sets.  I have CPI files which worked perfectly well on my old 
machine under MS-DOS 5.  However, I am having problems with the MODE 
command under DR-DOS 7.03 to set things up.

    In my CONFIG.SYS I have this statement:
DEVIE=C:\DRDOS\DISPLAY.SYS CON=(EGA,437,2)
I try to prepare a code page with the MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE command
(if I am remembering the syntax correctly: at the moment I am on
Win98), and then selecting it with another MODE command.  For
convenience I use a couple of little batch files to issue the PREPARE
and SELECT subcommands together for the desired codepage.

    However, I am getting errors.  When I issue the PREPARE subcommand,
I get the error message "Codepage operation not supported on this
device".  Just trying to do a MODE CON /STATUS gives me a "Device error
during status" message.  But MODE subcommands such as setting the
number of lines on the display works.

    Any ideas?  Thanks.

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