Ok Константин, no problem. Thank you for your reply anyway.
Yes, dot-matrix printers are old. Yes, I might buy a modern color inkjet or laser printer, no doubt about that. I don't have a dot-matrix printer (anymore - I've already had an Epson LX-800 and, later, an Epson LX-300 and, after that, an Epson Stylus Color - the first color inkjet in the market, back in 1995). As a matter of fact, I don't have any printer at all. The last one I had was a (good) Epson Stylus Color 740i, a color inkjet printer, bought in 2000. I kept it until the day that I admitted to myself that its operational cost was not worthy anymore because I barely printed anything. Instead of the waste basket (because it was, after all, still usable), I've donated it. Nowadays, when I need to print anything (which is most rare), I copy it into a pen-drive and go to an Internet Café. You see, the point is that FreeDOS might be useful for people who kept their old hardware for all these years and would still like to use it, not only to play those (good) old DOS games. You know, modern printers aren't compatible with old PCs. Besides, there are many people out there who simply cannot afford a computer, so they could do their jobs on old, donated computers - and printers. That's where multilanguage ability comes in handy and that's why I consider that character tables and codepages are never enough. By the way, cp854 and cp776 are not fictional. I've collected info on them on the web; I just wasn't fortunate enough to find their descriptions. I'm still looking for them. ;-) I'm glad that you liked UR.KL! I also must thank you and Escape for your help! I still have to update documentation, so that I can release new codepage and keyboard layout packs for FreeDOS - you don't even need to ask. It will be my pleasure. (Well, for technical reasons not relevant to the scope of this thread on dot-matrix printers, all revised and all new ukrainian layouts for FreeDOS won't be available on KEYBOARD.SYS but on KEYBRD3.SYS.) Regards, Henrique Em 4/5/2011 07:39, escape escreveu: > Hello Константин, > > Please calm down a bit and do not deliver your personal and highly > subjective opinion as something common to everyone else. > > On 28.04.11 11:59, Садовой Константин wrote: >> Hello Henrique. Sorry, but I do not know about dot matrix printers - it a >> museum exponat only. This is a very old stuff to print the texts. You may >> buy or grab from some office modern color inkjet or laser printer and use >> it, but your dot matrix printer must be put into wasterbacket. Sorry, but I >> cannot help you. >>> The idea is to convert all useful info into new codepages for FreeDOS. >>> Let me mention two cases as examples: I've been looking (for a few years >>> already) for the description of codepages 854 and 776. >> Codepages 854 and 776 is fictional - in the nature this codepages is not >> exist. In the Internet I cannot be found about it not nor one glyphs. >> Very big thank for you for corrected by you UR.KL! It a easy and super! >> Thank very mooch! New keyboard layout provide by you - UR.KL - is very easy >> and comfortable. For newbie users writes on the russian and ukrainian, new >> layout is more easy instead of previously variants. Ukrainian letter "И" >> находится на месте on key named "Ы" in the russian layout, and letter "І" on >> the key "И" on the russian layout. It very easy for newbies and >> professionals. Please put UR.KL into the updated KEYBOARD.SYS in the FreeDOS. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software > The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network > management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial > acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
