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Re: How to compose extended characters?

#3694
From: Leonard Erickson
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:03
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stephan@cis.rand.org (Stephan DeSpiegeleire) writes:

>Can anybody explain to me why I can no longer compose extended  characters
>(like  French  e acute and so) by using my alt-key and some code?  Is this
>because I upgraded to DOS 5.0 or because of some TSR that I am running  or
>what?  (I'm  adding a copy of my autoexec.bat and config.sys) And how do I
>get back that capability?  Any help would be greatly appreciated

>Here comes my autoexec.bat:

>echo off
>ver
>enhkbd

Bingo! "enhkbd" is the culprit.
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From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
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Subject: Re: How to compose extended characters?
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Date: 12 Jan 93 23:03:37 GMT
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