French keyboard

Thu May 31 05:54:00 GMT 2001

VARDI Ilan wrote:
> Thanks for the information. However, changing the autoexec.bat file
> has no effect, since after rebooting, the previous autexec.bat file
> returns, i.e., my changes are forgotten by the system. Moreover, my
> autoexec.bat file does not even contain a keyboard command line, only
> PATH setting. Thus, it may be possible that the problem, and therefore
> the solution lies at a deeper level of DOS horribleness.

That is the word !
Have you tried to play with `keyb' command in DOS console (e.g. `keyb /?') ?
On Win98SE, I get
Configure a keyboard for a specific language. (....)
>>> -ilan
>> Date: 2001年5月31日 10:27:16 +0200
> From: Jerome Benoit <JGMBenoit@wanadoo.fr>
>> For DOS I guess you have to look in the `c:\autoexec.bat' in the
> Windows root directory: In mine I read:
>> mode con codepage select=850
> keyb uk,,c\windows\COMMAND\keyboard.sys
>> I guess that your get a similar line:
> so you can try to set a new keyboard by modifying this line and reboot your
> computer.
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