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DOS622 on VPC2004

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 05/03/2007
From: Otto Sykora
Message:

VPC 2004 is supposed to support DOS as guest. OK it does.
But:
after the installation, I am bound to use the national keyboard layout of my
computer, which is swiss (sg) or german on the other computer (gr).
The keyboard suppoert ist set in the DOS the usual way, but the transport of
the signs from the keyboard to the screen on the VPC guest seems to be
somehow incomplete.
For example when I want enter c:\
I am getting c:^\
This is nonsense for the DOS and so I am not even able to copy files from
one dir to other etc.
When I open the dos editor (edit), the characters are even interpreted again
an other way, some dos graphic signs this time.

Is this something it is known and how can this be corrected?

BTW: on such DOS installed w3.1 works gain somehow correctly as far as
characters are concerned.

However, when word6.0 is installed on this guest w3.1, in most cases it says
not enough memory when trying to open the word. Then mostly word.exe will
cause GPF. Sometimes word 6 will start and run quite normal too, but I have
to try many times.

I have asigned 70mb harddrive (fixed size) and 20mb ram in the VPC for this
guest. This must be far to enough.

Is the support for DOS/w.31 limited in some way?

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RE: DOS622 on VPC2004

Sent: 05/04/2007
From: Loki-uk
Message:

MS-DOS works fine under VPC check out

www.aotk50.dsl.pipex.com/default.htm

There is a DOS install walkthrough and if you check the links sections you
can download my autoexec.bat and config.sys files to see how my system is
setup. The keyboard settings are set using keyb and the display code page is
set using the country, code page and display lines. Try using help to check
the code page, county and display settings for your country it sounds like
you might have a mismatched setting.

Loki

"Otto Sykora" wrote:

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> VPC 2004 is supposed to support DOS as guest. OK it does.
> But:
> after the installation, I am bound to use the national keyboard layout of my
> computer, which is swiss (sg) or german on the other computer (gr).
> The keyboard suppoert ist set in the DOS the usual way, but the transport of
> the signs from the keyboard to the screen on the VPC guest seems to be
> somehow incomplete.
> For example when I want enter c:\
> I am getting c:^\
> This is nonsense for the DOS and so I am not even able to copy files from
> one dir to other etc.
> When I open the dos editor (edit), the characters are even interpreted again
> an other way, some dos graphic signs this time.
>
> Is this something it is known and how can this be corrected?
>
> BTW: on such DOS installed w3.1 works gain somehow correctly as far as
> characters are concerned.
>
> However, when word6.0 is installed on this guest w3.1, in most cases it says
> not enough memory when trying to open the word. Then mostly word.exe will
> cause GPF. Sometimes word 6 will start and run quite normal too, but I have
> to try many times.
>
> I have asigned 70mb harddrive (fixed size) and 20mb ram in the VPC for this
> guest. This must be far to enough.
>
> Is the support for DOS/w.31 limited in some way?
>
>

RE: DOS622 on VPC2004

Sent: 05/07/2007
From: Otto Sykora
Message:

can download my autoexec.bat and config.sys files to see how my system is
setup. The keyboard settings are set using keyb and the display code page is
set using the country, code page and display lines. Try using help to check
the code page, county and display settings for your country it sounds like
you might have a mismatched setting.

<

no, the settings are correct, all exactly as it needs to be when dos
installed on its own on a real drive.
The bootdisk will work perfectly when used to boot the real PC, all keyb and
country settings fine for ages.

When the same bootdisk is used to boot the VPC, there is no way to configure
the country and keyb settings, since what ever I manage to enter there will
come out as wrong when trying to use it finaly. The only setting which will
work inside the VPC under DOS is US setting for keyb and country.
I tried settings with appropriate keyboards for:
sg (swiss german)
sf (swiss france)
gr(german)
cz for czech

for all of them I have keyboards and can run them , but nothing will work
correctly in the VPC.
Also strange: in the edit of DOS there are other symbols displayed then in
the command line and also in the NC4 editor are other symbols.

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>There is a DOS install walkthrough and if you check the links sections you

RE: DOS622 on VPC2004

Sent: 05/07/2007
From: Otto Sykora
Message:

could it be that all your experiments are done in fact with VPC2007 and I
work on 2004?

The host is w2k and so I seem to be not able to run the 2007 version.

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