Ok MiniMax , Thx for the input. I tried to follow http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=7260. I took an old MS-DOS 6.22 (and later a WIN98 SE) boot disk (with changes to support german display/keyboard). Using http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite, I created a bootable disk image. Then I stumbled.... …

I made some new testings. 1. I started WIN98 floppy disc with all the german codepage-stuff: device=c:\win98\command\display.sys con=(ega,,1) country=049,850,c:\win98\command\country.sys install=mode con codepage prepare=((850) C:\WIN98\COMMAND\ega.cpi) install=mode con codepage select=850 install= …

Now I'm a bit confused... The following command is not supported in DOsBox (check out - no file will be created): C:\> echo "Test" >ä.txt Accessing a previously created file with special characters is not supported in DosBox (in the attached screen shot you should see äÄöÖüÜß.txt ). Special …

Thx for your input. I think this is keyboard and display releated. As far as I understood, file name conversion (from WIN-XP UTF-8) is handled in a different way in DOSBOX. Live long and prosper Jam

Hi, on my WIN XP Prof PC I've a couple of old DOS files. Since they're created on a german DOS version the file names looks like: "ÄDREß.VER". In cmd.exe they shows up fine. Starting DOSBox 0.65 (with german language support and german keyboard loaded), they shows up "-DRE?.VER" (?= a grafic …