Full Layout Pack, ver 1.23 ========================== Henrique Peron (peron@email.com.br) Aitor Santamaria_Merino (aitor.sm@wanadoo.es) Keyboard layouts for FreeDOS xkeyb version 1.13 (and later) This software is free software, and is distributed under the GNU-GPL license version 2.0 or later. You should have received a copy of this license with the package (COPYING.TXT). Otherwise, please contact the Free Software Foundation at www.gnu.org -------- 1.- About the layouts 2.- How to install the layouts 3.- Known issues 4.- Contributions and feedback 1.- ABOUT THE LAYOUTS ===================== There are 268 layouts available in this version. Please check the LAYOUTS.TXT to know about the keyboard layout definitions and codepages under which these layouts are supposed to be used. Eventually, there are different keyboard codes for a same keyboard layout. When this happens, those layouts are duplicated, so that the user does not have to learn a new code. The Belarusian keyboard code, for instance, is either "bl" or "by". On the other hand, "sl" refers to Slovakia or Slovenia, according to other operational systems. In order to work around this conflict, "sk" has been picked to Slovakia and "si" to Slovenia. 2.- HOW TO INSTALL THE LAYOUTS ============================== XKEYB, from version 1.11 onwards, will admit one of these layouts as parameter. You may provide full path as parameter, for example: XKEYB C:\NEW\PACKS\FR.KEY Alternatively, you can place the packs in the same directory as XKEYB.EXE, or in a directory through the PATH environment variable, so that you avoid fully qualifying the path to the file (and even omit the extension): XKEYB GR About the XKEYB program version, note that: 1) These packs are NOT compatible with xkeyb 1.12 or below, and will not work with such versions. In xkeyb 1.11 and xkeyb 1.12, you can however workout a correct file, by merging it with PC437.KEY, but there are no strong software incompatibilities. This is not true for xkeyb 1.10 and below, where all layouts having COMBI will not work. 2) After xkeyb 1.13, it is absolutely neccessary to place the mandatory file PC437.KEY in the same directory of XKEYB.EXE, or alternatively, to place such file visible through PATH. 3) You are strongly recommended to try and use latest version of xkeyb, as some of the bugs in the program may not let you make full use of these new layouts. 4) This package version is newer than the standard collections of layouts at Xkeyb 1.13. 3.- KNOWN ISSUES ================ The information used to encode all layouts refers in most cases to graphical operational systems, so it is possible that characters are found in positions which are blank in the DOS versions of the layouts. On the other hand, + combinations available on graphical operational systems are not available. 4.- CONTRIBUTIONS AND FEEDBACK ============================== All your comments or ideas, and specially your feedback is welcome. You can use the authors' email addresses as below (languages are indicated) Henrique PERON (peron@email.com.br) (English/Portuguese) Aitor SANTAMARIA_MERINO (aitor.sm@wanadoo.es) (English/Spanish) For any problems regarding the KEY layouts, please email Henrique. For any problems with the XKEYB executable program, please email Aitor. If you are not sure where the problem comes from, please email both or Aitor.