Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 14:48:02 +0200 (METDST) Message-Id: <200105311248.f4VCm2315656@cactus.ihes.fr> X-Authentication-Warning: cactus.ihes.fr: ilan set sender to ilan@cactus.ihes.fr using -f From: VARDI Ilan To: JGMBenoit@wanadoo.fr CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com In-reply-to: <3B160064.F0C3CCB9@wanadoo.fr> (message from Jerome Benoit on Thu, 31 May 2001 10:27:16 +0200) Subject: Re: French keyboard References: <200105301029.f4UATT018834@cactus.ihes.fr> <3B160064.F0C3CCB9@wanadoo.fr> Thanks for the information. However, changing the autoexec.bat file has no effect, since after rebooting, the previous autexec.bat file returns, i.e., my changes are forgotten by the system. Moreover, my autoexec.bat file does not even contain a keyboard command line, only PATH setting. Thus, it may be possible that the problem, and therefore the solution lies at a deeper level of DOS horribleness. -ilan Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:27:16 +0200 From: Jerome Benoit For DOS I guess you have to look in the `c:\autoexec.bat' in the Windows root directory: In mine I read: mode con codepage select=850 keyb uk,,c\windows\COMMAND\keyboard.sys I guess that your get a similar line: so you can try to set a new keyboard by modifying this line and reboot your computer. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple