Re: Keyboard driver

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:01:04 +0100, Colin Wilson <void@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>> The difficulty is that XP doesn't provide a keyboard driver to match
>> the keys. There is no trace of the "@" sign in XP. In DOS there is no
>> trace of the backslash. These are essential keys.
>> Does anyone know of an appropriate driver?
>
>IIRC you need to set the "codepage" in the autoexec.bat or config.sys
>(there will almost certainly be an equivalent way of setting it
>somewhere in XP i`d guess, as its not "supposed" to be a DOS based
>system)


The laptop was bought in Australia by my son. I've only just
realiased that there is no £ sign on the keyboard. If I scrap the UK
driver and use the US one it's nearly right but I'd like to have the £
symbol available.

Any suggestions?

Best wishes

Colin
.

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