Re: display.sys / turbo3 / nansi / ms- and freedos / crashing DPMI1

X-Comment-To: Eric Auer

Hi!

13-=EE=CF=D1-2002 05:03 [email protected] (Eric Auer) wrote to
[email protected]:

EA> Hi, display.sys is - if you ask me - only interesting for setting the
EA> local time/date format (like 10. Dez. 2002 versus 12/10/2002) and for

     Format of date/time (also as other locale info) is issue of country.sy=
s
(and COUNTRY statement; at least, initially). Syncronizing timing aspects
(TZ, daylight savings, etc.) should be issue of other programs (which are
missing in MS-DOS, BTW).

EA> loading specific charsets into your video hardware. You are right, most=


     Yes, this utility was developed precisely for dealing with fonts,
although Aitor states, that it also used to handle requests of changing
codepages.