Mail Archives: opendos/2001/01/05/21:18:28
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Paul O. Bartlett wrote:
> 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. [...] However, I am having problems with the MODE
> command under DR-DOS 7.03 to set things up.
> [cut]
I spoke too soon. After I had made this post, just on a sudden
hunch I decided to try one more thing before I quit for the evening.
It turns out that a replacement driver I was using was at fault.
Back when I used MS-DOS 5, I loaded NANSI.SYS 3.3, which was a
replacement for (MS) ANSI.SYS. It was supposedly faster than ANSI.SYS,
and it had a load option to disallow keyboard redefinition by ANSI
escape sequences, thus closing up a security hole. So I just brought
it over. But when I loaded C:\DRDOS\ANSI.SYS instead of the old
NANSI.SYS, my problems with the MODE command went away.
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