XKeyb Ü
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 Extended keyboard driver for FreeDOS.
 XKeyb contains the keyboard driver and several other keyboard utilities.

    XKEYB    Keyboard driver, configure a keyboard for a layout other than
             standard US layout (codepage 437)
             Program keys to produce strings to STDOut
             Enable the XKEYB-API, with which you can associate routines
             to key events
    SCANKBD  Scan a keyboard layout into a configuration file
    KEYMAN   Keyboard macro recorder
    LISTXDEF Lists the keyboard layout plus the macro definitions

 Syntax:

   XKEYB  [/Xnn] [/Q] [/U]

   OPTIONS

   <Configuration File> Layout and codepage specific file, such as GR.KEY
                        or SP.KEY.  A path may be included, and the extension
                        may be omitted.  .KEY files are searched in current
                        directory, XKEYB program directory and %PATH%
                        environment string.
   /Xnn                 Allocate nn bytes of memory for Extension Strings
                        (macros).
   /Q                   Suppress the output of LIST paragraphs from
                        the configuration file.
   /U                   Remove the resident copy of XKEYB from memory
                        (if installed).

 You can program FreeDOS so that keyboard is configured at boot time by
 means of AUTOEXEC.BAT. Append the command line into your AUTOEXEC.BAT to
 do this.

 Notes
 Codepage support has not been added yet. However, the following table
 lists the different layouts supported:

 

                             
 Country or                    Keyboard 
 Layout                       file name     CodePage                  
 

 Belgium                         be          850 (?)
 Brazil                          br850       850
 Canadian-French                 cf          ?
 Denmark                         dk          ?
 Dvorak                          dvorak      ?
 France                          fr          850 (?)
 Germany                         gr          850 (?)
 Greece                          gr2         ?
 Italy                           it          850 (?)
 Latin America                   la          850
 Netherlands                     nl          850 (?)
 Norway                          no          ?
 United States                   pc850       850
 United States                   pc860       860
 Portugal                        po          860 (?)
 Spain                           sp          850
 Switzerland (French)            sf          ?
 Switzerland (German)            sg          ?
 Finland                         su          ?
 Sweden                          sv          ?
 United Kingdom                  uk          ?
 United States                   us          437
 


 Example:
 To use a German keyboard when your KEYBOARD.SYS file is in the DOS
 directory on drive C, type the following command:

 xkeyb gr

 SCANKBD and LISTXDEF:

 Syntax:

   SCANKBD 
   LISTXDEF

   SCANKBD scans current keyboard layout (XKEYB or other keyboard driver) to
   the configuration file, generating a .KEY compatible file
   LISTXDEF lists the XKEYB layout and all the macro definitions to console

  Most probably you would like to do

  LISTXDEF > MYFILE.KEY

  to save all your macro definitions.

 KEYMAN:

   KEYMAN is an interactive macro recorder for use with XKEYB.

   XKEYB must be resident in memory before KEYMAN can be installed.

   Once installed, press F11 to pop up the KEYMAN window. Enter a macro
   by pressing the key to assign the macro to (eg. CTRL-D), then the
   keystrokes to be assigned to the macro, then F11 again to save the
   macro.

   You can delete macro keystrokes using the BACKSPACE key. To enter a
   BACKSPACE keystroke in the macro, use ALT-.

   To change the Hotkey (F11 by default), pop up the KEYMAN window,
   press the hotkey again, then press the new hotkey.

   LISTXDEF.EXE can be used to save the recorded macros as a configuration
   file.

 More information and Contact:

 Please, refer to XKEYB.TXT for further information.

 If you want to contact XKEYB developmers and submit bugs, feedback or help,
 please contact Aitor Santamaria_Merino at aitor.sm@wanadoo.es

 Copyright:

 XKEYB is distributed under the GNU-GPL 2.0 license or later.
 XKEYB is copyright by Dietmar Hohmann and Aitor Santamaria_Merino
 XKEYB documentation was started by Ben Berry, and maintained by Aitor
       Santamaria_Merino

 See Also:
   Chcp