Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT 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 AT cactus DOT ihes DOT fr using -f From: VARDI Ilan To: JGMBenoit AT wanadoo DOT fr CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT 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 DOT f4UATT018834 AT cactus DOT ihes DOT fr> <3B160064 DOT F0C3CCB9 AT wanadoo DOT 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