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- KEYB
- Loads a keyboard handler to support foreign keyboards
- See also <COUNTRY> <NLSFUNC> <KEYBOARD.SYS> <MODE> <CHCP> <CONFIG.SYS>
-
- KEYB is a program that replaces the keyboard program resident in ROM
- BIOS to support non U.S. English keyboards. It permits you to enter
- characters that are not part of the standard QWERTY keyboard set, such
- as accented and umlauted characters. The actual keys pressed to
- generate such characters depends on the type of keyboard in use.
-
- COMMAND TYPE: External VERSION: 3.3 and up
-
- USE: KEYB [xx[,[yyy],[[d:][path]filename]]][/id:nnn]
-
- xx specifies the two character country code as shown below:
- UK - United Kingdom GR - Germany Fr - France IT - Italy SP - Spain
- yyy specifies the numeric code page defining the character set as shown
- below:
- AUSTRALIA 061 BELGIUM 032 CANADA/FRENCH 002 DENMARK 045
- FINLAND 358 FRANCE 033 GERMANY 049 ITALY 039
- ISRAEL 972 MIDDLE EAST 785 NETHERLANDS 031 NORWAY 047
- PORTUGAL 351 SPAIN 034 SWEDEN 046 SWITZERLAND 041
- U. KINGDOM 044 USA 001
-
- d: path filename specifies the drive, path, and filename of the
- keyboard definition file to support a country language. The default is
- <KEYBOARD.SYS>
- /id:nnn (DOS 4.x and later) specifies the keyboard type in use. nnn is a
- 3-digit code as shown in the table above
-
- NOTE: The keyboard programs on versions prior to DOS 3.3 are not
- compatible and should not be executed under DOS 3.3.
- KEYB which is available starting with DOS 3.3 replaces KEYBxx which
- was available with earlier versions.
-
- After loading a keyboard driver, you may change from the KEYB program
- to the US program by pressing CTRL-ALT-F1. You may switch back to the
- KEYB program by pressing CTRL-ALT-F2. KEYB entered without parameters
- will report the current keyboard settings and code pages in use.
-