Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 20:55:59 -0500 (EST) From: "Paul O. Bartlett" To: OpenDOS List Subject: DXR-DOS 7.03 CON: Codepage Switching Problem Message-ID: X-PGP-keyid: 0xF383C8F9 X-PGP-fingerprint: E62D2E2C7BCD08CB B742A93726A91532 Organization: SmartNet Private Account MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com I am still setting up DR-DOS 7.03, but here is a problem I cannot find addressed in the DOSBOOK. I sometimes want to use extended characters for languages other than English, in particular the ISO-8859-1/Latin-1 and ISO-8859-3/Latin-3 character sets. I have CPI files which worked perfectly well on my old machine under MS-DOS 5. However, I am having problems with the MODE command under DR-DOS 7.03 to set things up. In my CONFIG.SYS I have this statement: DEVIE=C:\DRDOS\DISPLAY.SYS CON=(EGA,437,2) I try to prepare a code page with the MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE command (if I am remembering the syntax correctly: at the moment I am on Win98), and then selecting it with another MODE command. For convenience I use a couple of little batch files to issue the PREPARE and SELECT subcommands together for the desired codepage. However, I am getting errors. When I issue the PREPARE subcommand, I get the error message "Codepage operation not supported on this device". Just trying to do a MODE CON /STATUS gives me a "Device error during status" message. But MODE subcommands such as setting the number of lines on the display works. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Paul mailto:bartlett AT smart DOT net .......................................................... Paul O. Bartlett, P.O. Box 857, Vienna, VA 22183-0857, USA Keyserver (0xF383C8F9) or WWW for PGP public key Home Page: http://www.smart.net/~bartlett