From: aw AT mail1 DOT bet1 DOT puv DOT fi
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Non Existant dos pipes - SOLUTION!
Date: 22 Sep 1999 17:20:07 GMT
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brahms AT mindspring DOT com (Stan Brown) wrote:
> 
> 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.

Really?  I always though standard ASCII (characters <=127) was the same
for all code pages.  At least it is for CP 437 and CP 850.