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First post, by JSK333

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Hi. I am having a strange issue with my keyboard's (Dynex DX-WKBD, a Best Buy cheapie) \ character not working inside the DOS Box. This is using Windows 7 x64.

On my keyboard, the \ character is on the same key as the | character (| is used with shift, \ is used without shift). When I press \ the ] character shows up. Pressing ] gives me [, and pressing [ gives me nothing. I have no trouble typing \ in any other Windows program.

I tried using Ctrl-F1 inside DOS Box to see if I could manually map another useless key to produce \ but it seems to work only the other way; I can only tell it what key I want \ to produce (by pushing that key). So there seems to be no way to get a \ to show up.

Is this is a known issue? Or am I the only one to have experienced it? Is there another way I can map another of my keys to produce \?

The reason this is a problem is that I cannot mount any drives without using \ so the program is basically useless to me at this point.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Reply 1 of 2, by Dominus

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I think the readme lists something for that case

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper