Re: [Freedos-devel] contributing additional xkeyb definition files

[Rugxulo <ru...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Denis St-Lau <ds...@ym...> wrote:
>
> Is xkeyb a freedos managed program or a third party program?
>     http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=xkeyb

AFAIK, XKEYB is "obsolete" in lieu of FD KEYB, which was rewritten and
(more or less) still maintained by Aitor. Henrique is usually the one to
manage the keyboard layouts for that and related codepages, etc.

The main FreeDOS "BASE" only lists KEYB while "UTIL" is more lenient and
mentions Tom's MKEYB as well as XKEYB as alternatives.

Just FYI, it appears that XKEYB hasn't been updated since roughly 2004
while even MKEYB had a very minor update in 2008. KEYB 2.01 was released in
2011.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/xkeyb/
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/2.01/

> I want to contribute additional keyboard definition .KEY files but I
don't know where to upload them.
> The original site is not online: http://projects.freedos.net/keyb/
>
> And the author (Dietmar Hohmann) do not respond to emails.

A lot of old projects are abandoned, sadly.

> So I uploaded here:
> http://download.tuxfamily.org/dvorak/dos/BEPO_850.KEY
> http://download.tuxfamily.org/dvorak/dos/BEPO_863.KEY
> http://download.tuxfamily.org/dvorak/dos/BEPO_437.KEY

Interesting ....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_863
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#B.C3.89PO

> and linked from the bottom of this site: Installation de la disposition
de clavier bépo
> sous Windows - Disposition de clavier francophone et ergonomique bépo
>
> How can we add these 3 files to the xkeyb project?

I'm downloading something irrelevant under Windows right now, so I can't
reboot to PuppyLinux (for ssh). But later on I'll upload these to iBiblio
for you and us, probably under some /contrib/ subdir or such.