Hi! While this has nothing to do with MKEYB,
Tom is absolutely right about command.com:
The more common version of FreeCOM uses XMS
to swap, which is faster and available on
almost every computer of 2021 FreeDOS fans.
But there also is the alternate KSSF style
swapping without XMS, which works similar
to your description of what MS DOS 3.3 did
AND which has been available for years.
I would not call KSSF experimental, I would
just call it rarely used, because most users
do have XMS drivers loaded :-)
As you remember, I even suggested that our
config / autoexec menu should make sure to
load the non-XMS FreeCOM for the boot option
"do not load XMS drivers" because that will
make a big difference in how much memory is
free for apps. For all other boot menu choices
WITH XMS, the default FreeCOM with XMS swap
of course remains the best choice :-)
Also, to get back to MKEYB: It is tiny both
in RAM and on disk and the lack of support
for automated codepage magic is perfectly
okay for me. As said, I could simply write
a small batch script to load MKEYB along
with the proper font for codepage switches
and you can simply unload MKEYB without a
reboot, so this even works on the fly. But
as mentioned, it is good to have choice, so
people are of course welcome to use the full
featured FreeDOS KEYB instead of MKEYB for
some extra functionality.
Regards, Eric
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