| DISPLAY.SYS |
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| Enables you to display international character sets on EGA, VGA, and LCD |
| monitors. This device driver must be loaded by a DEVICE or DEVICEHIGH |
| command in your CONFIG.SYS file. |
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| For an introduction to preparing your screen and keyboard for character |
| sets, see the chapter "Customizing for International Use" in the MS-DOS 6 |
| User's Guide. |
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| Syntax |
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| DEVICE=[drive:][path]DISPLAY.SYS CON[:]=(type[,[hwcp][,n]]) |
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| DEVICE=[drive:][path]DISPLAY.SYS CON[:]=(type[,[hwcp][,(n,m)]]) |
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| Parameters |
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| [drive:][path] |
| Specifies the location of the DISPLAY.SYS file. |
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| type |
| Specifies the display adapter in use. Valid values include EGA and LCD. |
| The EGA value supports both EGA and VGA display adapters. If you omit |
| the type parameter, DISPLAY.SYS checks the hardware to determine which |
| display adapter is in use. You can also specify CGA and MONO as values |
| for type, but they have no effect because character set switching is not |
| enabled for these devices. |
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| hwcp |
| Specifies the number of the character set that your hardware supports. |
| The following list shows the character sets that MS-DOS supports and the |
| country or language for each: |
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| 437 United States |
| 850 Multilingual (Latin I) |
| 852 Slavic (Latin II) |
| 860 Portuguese |
| 863 Canadian-French |
| 865 Nordic |
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| Additional character sets are supported by the EGA2.CPI file. For more |
| information, see the README.TXT file. |
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| For more information about using character sets, see the appendix |
| "Keyboard Layouts and Character Sets" in the MS-DOS 6 User's Guide. |
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| n |
| Specifies the number of character sets the hardware can support in |
| addition to the primary character set specified for the hwcp parameter. |
| Valid values for n are in the range 0 through 6. This value depends on |
| your hardware. For EGA display adapters, the maximum value for n is 6; |
| for LCD display adapters, the maximum value for n is 1. |
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| m |
| Specifies the number of subfonts the hardware supports for each code |
| page. The default value is 2 if type is EGA, and 1 if type is LCD. |
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| DISPLAY.SYS--Notes |
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| Using DISPLAY.SYS with monochrome or CGA display adapters |
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| Because monochrome and CGA display adapters do not support character set |
| switching, using DISPLAY.SYS with either type of adapter has no effect. |
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| Installing a third-party console driver |
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| If you install both DISPLAY.SYS and a third-party console driver, such as |
| VT52.SYS, the third-party device driver must be installed first. Otherwise, |
| the third-party device driver may disable DISPLAY.SYS. |
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| DISPLAY.SYS--Example |
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| Suppose you want DISPLAY.SYS to support an EGA display adapter with the |
| United States hardware character set (437) and the potential for two |
| additional MS-DOS character sets. To do this and to specify that DISPLAY.SYS |
| is in the DOS directory on drive C, add the following line to your |
| CONFIG.SYS file: |
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| device=c:\dos\display.sys con=(ega,437,2) |
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