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Keyb
Starts the keyboard program, which configures a keyboard for a specific language.
Syntax keyb [xx[,[yyy][,[drive:][path]e]filenam]] [/e] [/id:nnn]
Parameters xx Specifies the keyboard code
yyy Specifies the code page.
[drive:][path] filename
Specifies the location and name of the keyboard definition file. The default filename is KEYBOARD.SYS
[dos-drive:]dos-path
Specifies the location of the KEYB.COM file
Switches /e Specifies that an enhancd keyboard is installed. Use this switch if you are using an enhanced keyboard with an 8086 computer.
/id:nnn Specifies the keyboard in use. This switch is necessary only for countries that have more than one keyboard layout for the same language (France, Italy and the United Kingdom).
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The following table shows the valid values for xx, yyy, and nnn for each country or language.
Country or language Keyboard code (xx value) Code page (yyy value) keyboard identification (nnn value)
Belguim
Brazil
Canadian-French
Czechoslovakia (Czech)
Czechoslovakia(Slovak)
Denmark
Finland
France fr 850, 437 120, 189
Germany
Hungary
Italy it 850, 437 141, 142
Latin America
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland (French)
Switzerland (German)
United Kingdom uk 850, 437 166, 168
United States
Yugoslavia yu 852, 850
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