Message-ID: <004201c079c3$48de84a0$027efea9@c6d3n3> From: "Matthias Paul" To: References: Subject: Re: DXR-DOS 7.03 CON: Codepage Switching Problem Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:11:53 +0100 Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de id f08MZZm17713 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id RAA12729 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com On 2001-01-06 Paul O. Bartlett wrote: >> [...] I am having problems with the MODE >> command under DR-DOS 7.03 to set things up. >> [...] > Back when I used MS-DOS 5, I loaded NANSI.SYS 3.3, which > was a replacement for (MS) ANSI.SYS. [...] But when I loaded > C:\DRDOS\ANSI.SYS instead of the old NANSI.SYS, my > problems with the MODE command went away. The problem is most probably because ANSI type drivers and DISPLAY.SYS are both console drivers, that is, they replace/extend the CON: device. Hence the load order is (often) important: If you load your ANSI driver before loading the DISPLAY.SYS driver, things should work well. AFAIR, the DR-DOS ANSI.SYS can be loaded in any order under DR-DOS. Similar, newer issues of the MS-DOS ANSI.SYS can be loaded in any order in conjunction with the MS-DOS DISPLAY.SYS (the MS-DOS ANSI.SYS and DISPLAY.SYS drivers have an undocumented interface to communicate with each other), but 3rd party ANSI.SYS drivers may require a specific load order for things to work out OK. If things still go wrong, please post your complete CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. There may be other issues in conjunction with resident drivers not properly supporting codepage switching or the codepage support itself. I may be able to help, but I would need further details on your setup then. Hope it helps, Matthias PS. You mentioned that you are using the ISO 8859 Latin 1 and 3 code pages under DOS. DR-DOS/MS-DOS/PC DOS/PTS-DOS itself do not provide code page switching support for these code pages. (Unter IDs 912 and 915 PC DOS 7 and 2000 support ISO 8859-2 and -5, though, while AST Premium Exec DOS 5.0 reportedly supported ISO 8859-2 under ID 882.) As some of you may know, I am developing a generic code page library for use with any DOS and already have added support for any of the ISO as well as many other code pages, but still my question: Where do you got your .CPI files from? Is there another .CPI library out there which I donīt know off??? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------