From: brahms AT mindspring DOT com (Stan Brown) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Non Existant dos pipes - SOLUTION! Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:07:55 -0400 Organization: Oak Road Systems Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <37E6C190 DOT F63627C AT hotmail DOT com> <7s6idm$8k4$1 AT solomon DOT cs DOT rose-hulman DOT edu> <37E6D2A3 DOT 1444E1DB AT hotmail DOT com> <37E73846 DOT 5318 AT earthlink DOT net> <37E7E2D1 DOT 629EEC8D AT hotmail DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cf.cd.bb.a0 X-Server-Date: 21 Sep 1999 21:07:14 GMT X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.10 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com [Removed bogus newsgroup alt.dos programmer] mr_spod AT hotmail DOT com (Alex Crowther) wrote in comp.os.msdos.programmer: > >I finnally worked out how to get pipes back in dos, edit C:\config.sys >Remove device=C:\windows\command\display.sys con=(ega,,1) >and Country=044,850,C:\windows\command\country.sys >Reboot ... bingo ... pipes come back :P Ah -- the characters { | } are used for ø æ å (not necessarily in that order) on Danish-Norwegian keyboards. I think country 44 is Norway. Anyway, you did some good detective work. Even if I'm wrong about country 44, I'll bet the problem is that | (ASCII 124) is alphabetic in the keyboard setup for country 44. >Re-add the lines you took out and reboot - wierdly .. you will > still have dos pipes :P - beats me, works though. Now THIS baffles me. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA http://www.mindspring.com/~brahms/ "It's my opinion, and it's very true."