Full Layout Pack, ver 1.20
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  Henrique Peron (hperon@brturbo.com, peron@o2.net.br)
  Aitor Santamaria_Merino (aitor.sm@wanadoo.es)


Keyboard layouts for 
    FreeDOS xkeyb version 1.13 (and later)

This software is free software, and  is  distributed  under  the  GNU-GPL
license version 2.0 or later.
You should have  received  a  copy  of  this  license  with  the  package
(COPYING.TXT). Otherwise, please contact the Free Software Foundation  at
     www.gnu.org


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   1.- About the layouts
   2.- How to install the layouts
   3.- Known issues
   4.- Contributions and feedback



1.- ABOUT THE LAYOUTS
=====================

There are 266 layouts available in this version.

Please check the LAYOUTS.TXT to know about the keyboard layout definitions
and codepages under which these layouts are supposed to be used.

Eventually, there are different keyboard codes for a same keyboard layout.
When this happens, those layouts are duplicated, so that the user does not
have to learn a new code. The Belarusian keyboard  code, for  instance, is
either "bl" or "by".

On the other hand, "sl" refers to Slovakia or Slovenia, according to other
operational systems. In order to work around this conflict, "sk" has  been
picked to Slovakia and "si" to Slovenia.


2.- HOW TO INSTALL THE LAYOUTS
==============================

XKEYB, from version 1.11 onwards, will admit one of these layouts as
parameter. You may provide full path as parameter, for example:

XKEYB C:\NEW\PACKS\FR.KEY

Alternatively, you can place the packs in the same directory as XKEYB.EXE,
or in a directory through the PATH environment variable, so that you avoid
fully qualifying the path to the file (and even omit the extension):

XKEYB GR

About the XKEYB program version, note that:

1) These packs are NOT compatible with xkeyb 1.12 or below, and  will  not
work with such versions. In xkeyb 1.11  and  xkeyb 1.12, you  can  however
workout a correct file, by merging it with  PC437.KEY, but  there  are  no
strong software incompatibilities. This is not true  for  xkeyb  1.10  and
below, where all layouts having COMBI will not work.

2) After xkeyb 1.13, it is absolutely neccessary to  place  the  mandatory
file PC437.KEY in the same directory  of  XKEYB.EXE, or  alternatively, to
place such file visible through PATH.

3) You are strongly recommended to try and use latest version of xkeyb, as
some of the bugs in the program may not let you make full use of these new
layouts.

4) This package version is newer than the standard collections of  layouts
at Xkeyb 1.13.


3.- KNOWN ISSUES
================

The information used to  encode  all  layouts  refers  in  most  cases  to
graphical operational systems, so it is possible that characters are found
in <AltGr> positions which are blank in the DOS versions of the layouts.

4.- CONTRIBUTIONS AND FEEDBACK
==============================

All your comments or ideas, and specially your feedback is welcome. You
can use the authors' email addresses as below (languages are indicated)

  Henrique  PERON (hperon@brturbo.com, peron@o2.net.br)   (English/Portuguese)
  Aitor     SANTAMARIA_MERINO (aitor.sm@wanadoo.es)       (English/Spanish)


For any problems regarding the KEY layouts, please email Henrique.
For any problems with the XKEYB executable program, please email Aitor.
If you are not sure where the problem comes from, please email both or Aitor.
