International keyboard layouts - solved

  • From: Edward Mendelson <em36@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 21:48:47 -0500

It turns out that non-US keyboard layouts for xVosXy are easily available. 
Download the Freedos KEYB utility (and KEYBOARD.SYS) and put them in a 
convenient directory. Then, at the vDosXy command line enter (for example)

KEYB DE /9

This installs the German-language keyboard. The “/9” switch is essential, as 
the command will have no effect without it.

Dead keys are supported. This should work with more or less any common national 
language.

I’ve placed a convenient download here:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/271144/Keyb-Freedos.zip 
<https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/271144/Keyb-Freedos.zip>

but you should probably find the latest versions on various FreeDOS sites. 

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