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How can one load keyboard.sys/keybrd2.sys/keybrd3.sys ?

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First post, by lwc

Posted on 2011-11-19, 17:53

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The readme wrote:

Example: For the file UZ.KL (keyboard layout for Uzbekistan) specify
"keyboardlayout=uz" in the DOSBox configuration file.
The integration of keyboard layout packages (like keybrd2.sys) works similar.

Alas, keyboardlayout=keybrd2 fails and keyboardlayout=keybrd2.sys gets DOSBox stuck. keyb.com keybrd2 and keyb.com keybrd2.sys fail as well.

So how can one load something from those sys files?

Thanks!

Reply 1 of 11, by wd

Posted on 2011-11-19, 18:25

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What do you really want to do?

Reply 2 of 11, by lwc

Posted on 2011-11-19, 18:45

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I want, for example, the command keyb uz to require keybrd3.sys and not uz.kl.

Reply 3 of 11, by wd

Posted on 2011-11-19, 20:01

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Put keybrd3.sys into the directory where you are when you execute keyb.com, or into the directory of your dosbox.exe

Reply 4 of 11, by lwc

Posted on 2011-11-19, 22:49

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If I put all four sys files, does DOSBox just look for UZ in all of them until it finds it?

Reply 5 of 11, by wd

Posted on 2011-11-19, 22:57

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Sort of. There's a priority of the .kl over the .sys (keyboard/keybrd2/keybrd3) over the internal-compiled (.sys import) ones.

Reply 6 of 11, by lwc

Posted on 2011-11-20, 18:11

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No, I meant if no KL files are around does it look for UZ inside keyboard.sys, then in keybrd2.sys, then in keybrd3.sys and finally in keybrd4.sys?

wd wrote:
the .sys (keyboard/keybrd2/keybrd3) over the internal-compiled (.sys import) ones.

What's the latter?

Reply 7 of 11, by wd

Posted on 2011-11-20, 18:46

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I meant if no KL files are around does it look for UZ inside keyboard.sys, then in keybrd2.sys, then in keybrd3.sys and finally in keybrd4.sys?

Yes, see what I said. Except that keybrd4.sys won't be searched.

What's the latter?

the .sys files compiled into dosbox.

Reply 8 of 11, by lwc

Posted on 2011-11-20, 22:34

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wd wrote:
Except that keybrd4.sys won't be searched.

Why not?

Reply 9 of 11, by wd

Posted on 2011-11-21, 00:21

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Check the sources.

Reply 10 of 11, by lwc

Posted on 2011-11-21, 16:32

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I take your word that the sources also ignore keybrd4.sys. I just wonder why.

Reply 11 of 11, by wd

Posted on 2011-11-21, 16:39

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Didn't exist.

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