Mail Archives: opendos/2001/01/08/20:43:21
I will save space and trim most of the post.
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Matthias Paul wrote:
> On 2001-01-06 Paul O. Bartlett wrote:
>
> [cut]
> If you load your ANSI driver before loading the
> DISPLAY.SYS driver, things should work well.
I will try this the next time I boot DR-DOS. (At the moment I am
using BeOS, which I am also looking at as a possible replacement for
the dreaded Windows.)
> 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. [...]
Actually it does, if you have the appropriate .CPI files. Once I
used DR-DOS ANSI.SYS, as I mentioned in my followup to my own post, I
was able to load and use code pages 819 (ISO Latin-1) and 913 (ISO
Latin-3) without any problems. (Ture, DR/MS DOS themselves do not
providce these code pages, but they are publicly available.)
> 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???
I got the .CPI files from a site in Germany several years ago. I
have a link to it at the very bottom of one of my personal web pages:
http://www.smart.net/~bartlett/ial.html
I think the site is still there. At least it was a few minutes
ago, although I did not try to download the files again. (As I say, at
the moment I am using BeOS.) If you have a problem fetching them, send
me a private email, and I can send them to you. The university made
them available for use, as far as I know.
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