Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 20:02:01 +0100 To: "Sagar R. Shah" Cc: cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Keith Fielding Subject: CVS/RCS/or anything || UK Keyboards References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 4.02 U In message , Sagar R. Shah writes > >My autoexec.bat has the following lines: > >mode con codepage prepare=((850) c:\windows\COMMAND\ega.cpi) >mode con codepage select=850 >keyb uk,,c:\windows\COMMAND\keyboard.sys > > >The side affect of these is that I'm unable to get the pipe (|) character in >bash/cygwin. As you can imagine this is pretty annoying. > >I can get | if I first execute "keyb.com us" first, but of course this >messes up all my other keys. > >Help! Please. > > >Sagar I have the latest version of cygwin installed on my home PC and on a laptop and b20.1 (upgrade pending) on a PC at work. All of these have UK keyboards and have the same three lines in the autoexec.bat file. On all three machines the | character works just fine. Sorry Sagar but the cause of your problem is not the UK keyboard. All of these three machines are running W95b. -- Keith Fielding -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com