Hi! >> COUNTRY.SYS isn't needed for DISPLAY-only stuff, e.g. codepages on >> screen, nor for KEYB either. It's only other stuff (collate >> tables, y/n), I think.
Yes. And if you only need country style numbers and times, often the kernel built-in country table can be enough for you. > Most of the other stuff (NLSFUNC, COUNTRY, etc.) are mostly for > sorting/collation and currency/number/time display. But, even this > is limited to DOS itself, or programs that call DOS services to... For example EDIT and FORMAT use that for time / number formatting. > provide this functionality. I'm not sure how many programs would > call DOS services to do this kind of thing for them, anyway If you count command.com, a lot of your everyday DOS is covered. > a "serious" program would likely do all of this internally and not > depend on the user to enter the appropriate settings in CONFIG.SYS or > AUTOEXEC.BAT. The other way round. A serious program will ask the kernel or environment variables for your global settings from config and autoexec, so you do not have to config each program separately. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
