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MSDOS / 4DOS Keyboard set to US instead of UK and KEYB command is unknown

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First post, by duffy1807

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Hi Guys, I hope to find a solution here .
I am not very computer literate please bare that in mind for any responses it would be appreciated.

4dos primary folder is : C:\4dos\

Example
When I type :
Shift & 2 = @ instead of "
Shift & 3 = # instead of £
I am trying to change this is UK keyboard, From my research please correct me if I am wrong , this is to do with editing the files in directory Windows/System32 Autoexec.nt and Config.nt ?

Can any one help with how to do this please?

AUTOEXEC.NT
I have appended in the Autoexec.nt file
keyb UK,,c:\4dos\keyboard.sys
However in the 4dos folder, their is no keyboard.sys , only in the WIndows/System32 folder? should the appended line read ?
keyb UK,,c:\WIndows\System32\keyboard.sys

Do I need to copy keyboard.sys or any other files to the 4dos folder? Am sorry I am clueless ...

when in 4dos, the KEYB command returned unknown, but all other commands work as normal? is the 4dos installation corrupted?

any help is greatly appreciated. thank you
craig

Reply 1 of 4, by Gmlb256

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Hello.

The computer is running a NT-based Windows version which isn't real DOS and has slightly different commands. KB16 is the one that you should use for setting the keyboard layout in DOS applications.

BTW, use 4NT/TCC instead of 4DOS if you can.

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Reply 3 of 4, by duffy1807

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Thanks for your response guys.

Okay, So KB16 command gives an error :

"KEYB has not been installed
Active code page not available from CON device"

I've searched google, which gives 1 foreign website

and its running windows XP , MS-DOS version 5.50, 4DOS 5.0

am clueless on how to "properly" update these or change them. Am just trying to help a friend of mine who runs old programmes . I just running an SFC /Scanow to ensure no missing files are the problem.

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