| COUNTRY |
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| Enables MS-DOS to use country-specific conventions for displaying times, |
| dates, and currency; for determining the order by which characters are |
| sorted; and for determing which characters can be used in filenames. You can |
| use this command only in your CONFIG.SYS file. |
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| The COUNTRY command configures MS-DOS to recognize the character set and |
| punctuation conventions observed when using one of the supported languages. |
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| Syntax |
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| COUNTRY=xxx[,[yyy][,[drive:][path]filename]] |
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| Parameters |
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| xxx |
| Specifies the country code. |
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| yyy |
| Specifies the character set for the country. |
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| [drive:][path]filename |
| Specifies the location and name of the file containing country |
| information. |
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| Related Commands |
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| For information about changing characters and their arrangement on your |
| keyboard, see the KEYB command, or see the chapter "Customizing for |
| International Use" in the MS-DOS 6 User's Guide. |
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| For information about preparing and selecting character sets, see the |
| MODE (set device code pages) command. |
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| For information about loading country-specific information, see the |
| NLSFUNC command. |
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| COUNTRY--Notes |
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| Changing default settings |
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| MS-DOS uses the United States as the default setting. You can use the |
| COUNTRY command in your CONFIG.SYS file to change the setting. |
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| If you do not specify the location and name of the file containing |
| country-specific information, MS-DOS tries to find the COUNTRY.SYS file in |
| the root directory of your startup drive. |
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| Specifying supported languages |
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| The following table lists each country or language supported by MS-DOS. The |
| table also lists the character sets you can use with each country code. For |
| example, if you use country code 003, you can use only character set 437 or |
| 850 for the yyy parameter. The first of the two character sets listed for |
| each country or language is its default character set. |
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| Country or language Country Character sets |
| code |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| Belgium 032 850, 437 |
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| Brazil 055 850, 437 |
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| Canadian-French 002 863, 850 |
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| Croatia 038 852, 850 |
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| Czech Republic 042 852, 850 |
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| Denmark 045 850, 865 |
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| Finland 358 850, 437 |
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| France 033 850, 437 |
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| Germany 049 850, 437 |
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| Hungary 036 852, 850 |
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| International 061 437, 850 |
| English |
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| Italy 039 850, 437 |
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| Latin America 003 850, 437 |
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| Netherlands 031 850, 437 |
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| Norway 047 850, 865 |
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| Poland 048 852, 850 |
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| Portugal 351 850, 860 |
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| Serbia/Yugoslavia 038 852, 850 |
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| Slovakia 042 852, 850 |
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| Slovenia 038 852, 850 |
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| Spain 034 850, 437 |
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| Sweden 046 437, 850 |
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| Switzerland 041 850, 437 |
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| United Kingdom 044 437, 850 |
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| United States 001 437, 850 |
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| Character sets for the following countries or languages are also available |
| with special versions of MS-DOS: Arabic, Israel, Japan, Korea, People's |
| Republic of China, and Taiwan. |
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| Specifying international time and date formats |
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| The country code specifies the time and date formats used by the following |
| MS-DOS commands: BACKUP, DATE, RESTORE, and TIME. |
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| The following table lists the date and time formats related to each country |
| code. For each country code, the "Date format" column shows how MS-DOS |
| displays January 3, 1993, and the "Time format" column shows how MS-DOS |
| displays 5:35 P.M. (with 0 seconds and 0 hundredths of a second). |
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| Country or language Country Date Time format |
| code format |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| Belgium 032 23/01/1993 17:35:00 |
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| Brazil 055 23/01/1993 17:35:00 |
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| Canadian-French 002 1993-01-23 17:35:00 |
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| Czechoslovakia 042 1993-01-23 17:35:00 |
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| Denmark 045 23-01-1993 17.35.00 |
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| Finland 358 23.01.1993 17.35.00 |
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| France 033 23.01.1993 17:35:00 |
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| Germany 049 23.01.1993 17:35:00 |
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| Hungary 036 1993-01-23 17:35:00 |
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| International 061 23-01-1993 5:35:00.00p |
| English |
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| Italy 039 23/01/1993 17.35.00 |
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| Latin America 003 23/01/1993 5:35:00.00p |
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| Netherlands 031 23-01-1993 17:35:00 |
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| Norway 047 23.01.1993 17:35:00 |
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| Poland 048 1993-01-23 17:35:00 |
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| Portugal 351 23-01-1993 17:35:00 |
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| Spain 034 23/01/1993 17:35:00 |
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| Sweden 046 1993-01-23 17.35.00 |
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| Switzerland 041 23.01.1993 17,35,00 |
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| United Kingdom 044 23/01/1993 17:35:00.00 |
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| United States 001 01-23-1993 5:35:00.00p |
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| Yugoslavia 038 1993-01-23 17:35:00 |
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| Character sets for the following countries or languages are also available |
| with special versions of MS-DOS: Arabic, Israel, Japan, Korea, People's |
| Republic of China, and Taiwan. |
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| COUNTRY--Examples |
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| To convert international currency, time, date, and case to French |
| conventions, add the following command to your CONFIG.SYS file: |
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| country=033 |
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| For this example, assume that the COUNTRY.SYS file is in the root directory |
| of the startup drive. If COUNTRY.SYS is in a different location, you would |
| specify the location in [drive:]path on the command line. |
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| To specify a character set with the country code for France, type the |
| following: |
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| country=033,850 |
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| If you omit the character set but include the [drive:][path] filename |
| parameter, you must still type the comma that would have preceded the |
| character set, as the following example shows: |
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| country=033,,c:\dos\country.sys |
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