From:	Alex Crowther <alex_crowther AT yahoo DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	dos pipes not working
Date:	Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:25:50 +0000
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Anyone have a definitive answer as to why dos pipes dont work on
UK installations of Win98. example ..

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echo bobbins | type
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should show ..
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bobbins
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where as if pipes are not working you get ..
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bobbins | type
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Normally I fix it by messing with config.sys and autoexec.bat,
until it works .. for autoexec.bat

mode con codepage blar blar
keyb uk, blar blar
LH KEYB UK

and some related entries for config.sys I cant even remember.

All I know is that after a while they start working ...

ps - I good trick to improve things in dos is to put the following in
config.sys

SHELL=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /P /E:32768 /U:255 /L:1024

which gives it far more memory than usual, which causes alot of
problems in dos to stop, for example if you use make.exe (cos you
are a coder etc), it increases the command line length lets make
exicute gcc blar blar blar ... even if the line wraps 4 times, where
as normally it would get cut off after one and a half lines.)

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