From:	brahms AT mindspring DOT com (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Non Existant dos pipes - SOLUTION!
Date:	Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:07:55 -0400
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mr_spod AT hotmail DOT com (Alex Crowther) wrote in comp.os.msdos.programmer:
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>I finnally worked out how to get pipes back in dos, edit C:\config.sys
>Remove device=C:\windows\command\display.sys con=(ega,,1)
>and      Country=044,850,C:\windows\command\country.sys
>Reboot ... bingo ... pipes come back :P

Ah -- the characters { | } are used for ø æ å (not necessarily in that 
order) on Danish-Norwegian keyboards. I think country 44 is Norway.

Anyway, you did some good detective work. Even if I'm wrong about country 
44, I'll bet the problem is that | (ASCII 124) is alphabetic in the 
keyboard setup for country 44.

>Re-add the lines you took out and reboot - wierdly .. you will
>     still have dos pipes :P - beats me, works though.

Now THIS baffles me.

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