The default FreeDOS 1.1 installation does not load KEYB for a US keyboard (nor do I have it loaded). CHCP reports Code Page 858, as expected. And as I reported in my original post on this topic:
- Even in Edit, R-Alt acts like L-Alt with no document open. - In SetEdit, R-Alt acts like L-Alt. - In FreeDOS Help, R-Alt acts like L-Alt. - In DOOM, R-Alt acts like L-Alt. This led me to think that underlying mechanisms were all in good order and not responsible for the (undesirable) behavior in EDIT. So I do indeed now think of it as an EDIT problem, and I have adopted SETEDIT as a workaround or better alternative on most hardware. @ Bret: Perhaps you have the skills to offer a fix for EDIT, or can convince the current developers to do so! On 3/8/2016 1:46 PM, Bret Johnson wrote: > It is known that the R-Alt (AltGr) works differently than L-Alt with some > keyboard layouts, but when it is a US keyboard layout (and some other layouts > as well) that is not the case. This is a bug and it should be fixed. > > There are DOS functions that EDIT can call to tell what kind of keyboard > layout is currently implemented and what the current Code Page is (the two > things are correlated). However, not all keyboard drivers implement those > functions properly, so EDIT can end up thinking you're using a US keyboard > layout when you really aren't. I know MS-KEYB properly supports these > functions, but am not sure about FD-KEYB or the other "MS-KEYB clones". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://makebettercode.com/inteldaal-eval _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
