MORE INFORMATION
For more information on these files, see the following text taken from
the MS-DOS 6.2 README.TXT file:
1.17 Additional Keyboard and Codepage Support
MS-DOS 6.2 includes the KEYBRD2.SYS and EGA2.CPI files, which offer
additional keyboards and codepages. You use these files just as you would
the KEYBOARD.SYS and EGA.CPI files. MS-DOS also includes new country
settings in COUNTRY.SYS.
The KEYBRD2.SYS file is essentially similar to KEYBOARD.SYS. The
differences between KEYBOARD.SYS and KEYBRD2.SYS are:
• KEYBRD2.SYS contains support for the following keyboards, which
are not supported by KEYBOARD.SYS:
Country/Language Keyboard layout Keyboard ID
----------------------------------------------------------
Canada (standard CAN/CSA-Z keyboard) cf 243.200-92
Brazil (secondary standard keyboard) br 274, 275
Greece gk 319
Iceland is 161
Romania ro 333
Turkish tr 440, 179
• The KEYBRD2.SYS file does not include support for the following
keyboards supported by KEYBOARD.SYS:
Switzerland (German)
Switzerland (French)
Japan
• The KEYBRD2.SYS file provides access to a few keyboards by keyboard
layout (two-letter code) only. KEYBOARD.SYS provides access to these
keyboards by either keyboard layout or keyboard ID. The affected
keyboards are:
Poland
Czechoslovakia (Czech)
Czechoslovakia (Slovak)
Yugoslavia
Hungary
• KEYBRD2.SYS contains changes to the German keyboard that are
not in KEYBOARD.SYS. In the German keyboard, the SHIFT lock
behavior of the top row of the keyboard now remains unaffected,
and is now functionally the same as the U.S. keyboard (that is,
"typewriter mode" has been removed).
The EGA2.CPI file is similar to the EGA.CPI file, except that the two
files contain different code pages. EGA2.CPI contains the following:
850 - Multilingual (in both EGA2.CPI and EGA.CPI)
852 - Eastern European (in both EGA2.CPI and EGA.CPI)
857 - Turkish
861 - Icelandic
869, 737 - Greek
MS-DOS 6.2 includes new country settings in COUNTRY.SYS that use the
new keyboards and code pages. COUNTRY.SYS contains the following
countries with their supported code pages:
Country or language Country Character sets
code
------------------------------------------------------
Greece 030 869, 737
Iceland 354 861, 850
Romania 040 852, 850
Turkish 090 857, 850
You use the KEYBRD2.SYS and EGA2.CPI files just as you would
KEYBOARD.SYS and EGA.CPI. These files can be used in any combination.
For example, to use the new Icelandic settings, carry out the following
steps:
• Add the following commands to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
REM ICELAND SETTINGS
MODE CON CP PREPARE=((861) C:\DOS\EGA2.CPI)
MODE CON CP SELECT=861
KEYB IS,,C:\DOS\KEYBRD2.SYS
• If you also need support for codepage 850 (Multilingual), add
the following commands to your CONFIG.SYS file:
REM ICELAND SETTINGS
COUNTRY=354,861,C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\DISPLAY.SYS CON=(,,2)
Add the following commands to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
REM ICELAND SETTINGS
NLSFUNC
MODE CON CP PREPARE=((861,850) C:\DOS\EGA2.CPI)
MODE CON CP SELECT=861
KEYB IS,,C:\DOS\KEYBRD2.SYS
• Restart your computer.