Keys messed up in DOS

[LordLastDay]

Yes, I admit that the title is kinda bad.


My problem is that I live in finland, thus using a Finnish keyboard... and something has made my DOS think that I have american keyboard, I suppose.

For example when I type ö (o with dots on it) it makes ":"
Other special keys are messed up too, I think this happened when I updated something for windows... most likely it replaced a file with wrong langue version.

The weird thing is that all keys work correctly anywhere except DOS (or the command prompt that is using DOS)

Sorry for typos, I don't speak, or should I say type perfect english.

 

[DaveBurnett]

Have a look in Config.sys and Autoexec.bat. You may find a Keyboard command and a Code page mentioned. The code page may well be 437(US English). You need to change them to the correct settings.
Keyboard su
Code page=850
Country Code 358

see: http://www.oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/codepage.htm

 

[LordLastDay]

This is what it had inside...

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE
device=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\display.sys con=(ega,,1)
Country=358,850,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\country.sys

The country codes are as you mentioned, though they are in a little different position. I have windows 98, maybe it causes them to be lined differently.

To me it looks perfectly correct, I might be wrong though...

thanks for trying to help anyway, I have no idea how windows understand all correctly but my DOS doesn't.

 

[DaveBurnett]

You need the folowing in the Autoexec.bat

mode con codepage prepare=((850) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
mode con codepage select=850
keyb su,,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\keyboard.sys

 

[LordLastDay]

It worked!

I'm too stupid to understand how/why it worked, as all I could understand is that autoexec is executed when computer restarts. (As it's name suggests)

Thank you!

 

[DaveBurnett]

The Config.sys and the Autoexec.bat are the files that were use in Dos for setting these things up. They are still used as models (if they were there when windows was set up)
for Dos sessions.