Mail Archives: opendos/2001/01/08/17:36:08
On 2001-01-06 Paul O. Bartlett wrote:
>> [...] I am having problems with the MODE
>> command under DR-DOS 7.03 to set things up.
>> [...]
> Back when I used MS-DOS 5, I loaded NANSI.SYS 3.3, which
> was a replacement for (MS) ANSI.SYS. [...] But when I loaded
> C:\DRDOS\ANSI.SYS instead of the old NANSI.SYS, my
> problems with the MODE command went away.
The problem is most probably because ANSI type drivers
and DISPLAY.SYS are both console drivers, that is, they
replace/extend the CON: device. Hence the load order
is (often) important:
If you load your ANSI driver before loading the
DISPLAY.SYS driver, things should work well.
AFAIR, the DR-DOS ANSI.SYS can be loaded in any order
under DR-DOS. Similar, newer issues of the MS-DOS
ANSI.SYS can be loaded in any order in conjunction with
the MS-DOS DISPLAY.SYS (the MS-DOS ANSI.SYS and
DISPLAY.SYS drivers have an undocumented interface to
communicate with each other), but 3rd party ANSI.SYS
drivers may require a specific load order for things to
work out OK.
If things still go wrong, please post your complete
CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. There may
be other issues in conjunction with resident drivers
not properly supporting codepage switching or
the codepage support itself. I may be able to help,
but I would need further details on your setup then.
Hope it helps,
Matthias
PS. You mentioned that you are using the
ISO 8859 Latin 1 and 3 code pages under DOS.
DR-DOS/MS-DOS/PC DOS/PTS-DOS itself do
not provide code page switching support for these
code pages. (Unter IDs 912 and 915 PC DOS 7 and
2000 support ISO 8859-2 and -5, though, while AST
Premium Exec DOS 5.0 reportedly supported
ISO 8859-2 under ID 882.) As some of you may
know, I am developing a generic code page library
for use with any DOS and already have added support
for any of the ISO as well as many other code pages,
but still my question: Where do you got your .CPI
files from? Is there another .CPI library out there
which I donīt know off???
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