AW: AW: Dos Box XP

[Daniel Noelpp]

Hello Stefan

I have the same problem, too. DOSBox doesn't work well
with non-US keyboards I am afraid. Did you try the
Alt Numpad trick? For example to get \ press the Alt
key (not Alt GR) and keep it pushed. Then at the
same time key in 9 2 . (first press 9 then 2 at the
numerical pad at the right side of the keyboard). Then
finally release Alt.

This doesn't work for me either, because I have a laptop
and not a separate numerical keyboard and the blue Fn
key trick doesn't work either.

Daniel Noelpp

> Dear Jerry and listers...
>
> thank you very much for your answer. My problem is not to understand the
> backslash (\) - but the mystery is that I can type this backslash  with
> the
> keycombination [ Alt Gr]  and [ ?] in any other DOS - Program but not in
> this special DOSBox ... ;-(
>
> Thanks for the list for the DOSBox crew ...
>
> Stefan;-))
>   -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
>   Von: SignWriting List [mailto:SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA]Im Auftrag von
> Jerry Spillman
>   Gesendet: Freitag, 26. September 2003 00:51
>   An: SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
>   Betreff: Re: AW: Dos Box XP
>
>
>   Stefan,
>
>   I tried to answer your questions in a personal e-mail approximately one
> week ago.  I will try here to explain the (\) backslash.  It is the symbox
> on US English and some other keyboard systems for "directory".  As shown
> with C:\, it means "root directory", and is used as a symbol to show when
> one establishes a subdirectory under that root as in establishing a "path"
> to the file..
>
>   Dos is usually stored in a directory called C:\DOS\.  The DOSBox
> directory
> (also called a folder in WINDOWS) is a sub-directory of C:\program files\,
> such as in c:\program files\dosbox\, and it contains the DOSBox.conf file
> and the other text files that explain how to configure it.  The
> DOSBox.conf
> file would be shown in its full path as such: C:\program
> files\dosbox\dosbox.conf
>
>   I apologize that I cannot explain it another way, but I think you can
> probably safely substitute whatever figure is used in the German version
> of
> regular DOS in the place of this backslash.  I don't know what that figure
> would be, as I am (sorry) not at all literate in any other computer
> terminology for Windows/DOS other than the US English.
>
>   The creators of DOSBox may be able to help answer your questions at:
>
>
>     DOSBox crew
>
>
>           Name:  Nickname:  Mail:  Website:
>           Tommy Frossman  Fanskapet
>          http://www.dawnofthegames.com
>           Sjoerd  Harekiet  harekiet at zophar.net
> http://dosbox.sourceforge.net
>           Peter Veenstra  Qbix  qbix79 at users.sourceforge.net@removeme
>           Ulf Wohlers  Finster  finsterr at users.sourceforge.net
>
>
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