JSI Tip 1341. MS-DOS sub-system does not support Eastern European keyboards.

Windows NT does not provide keyboard support in the MS-DOS sub-system for:

   Albania   Ukrainia   Belarussia   Slovenia   Estonia   Latvia   Lithuania   Serbia (Cyrillic)   Polish (Regular keyboard, the Polish Programmers keyboard is supported)

To add support for these keyboards, you must acquire MS-DOS files to replace Keyboard.sys and a full-screen font to replace Ega.cpi.The Estonian keyboards file can be found at ftp://ftp.itedu.ee/microsoft/windows9x/windows_95/updates/addest11.exe

The Estonian full-screen font is Ega3.cpi and is available with the Pan European version of Windows 95. The following table gives you the font file names for other countries:

   Country            Font File   File Name   ------------------------------------------   Albania            Ega.cpi     Third-party   Ukrainia           Ega3.cpi    Keybrd3.sys   Belarussia         Ega3.cpi    Keybrd3.sys   Slovenia           Ega.cpi     Keybrd2.sys   Estonia            Ega3.cpi    See ftp site above   Latvia             Ega3.cpi    Third-party   Lithuania          Ega3.cpi    Third-party   Serbia (Cyrillic)  Ega3.cpi    Keybrd2.sys   Polish (Regular)   Ega.cpi     Keyboard.sys

Once you located the required files: (Don't ask me where to find them, If I knew, I would have listed the location.)

1. Use Regedt32 to locate your keyboard at
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlKeyboard Layouts
    The Estonian keyboard is 00000425.

2. Locate the above at:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlKeyboard LayoutDosKeybCodes
    Replace us with the two-letter code for your keyboard (in the keyboard description documentation).
    Estonia is ee.

3. In Control Panel / Regional Settings / Regional Settings tab, make sure your country is set as the system default.
    If you set it now, do NOT reboot.

4. In Control Panel / Keyboard / General tab, make sure your keyboard is selected
    and on the Input Locale tab, it is the default.

5. Rename %systemroot%system32Keyboard.sys to Keyboard.old.

6. Use Mv.exe - Posix or an alternate boot of NT to rename
    %systemroot%system32Ega.cpi to EGA.CPI.SAVE. If using Mv.exe:
    MV /x /d EGA.CPI EGA.CPI.SAVE

7. Place the new CPI file in the %systemroot%system32 folder:
    MV /x /d EGA3.CPI EGA.CPI

8. Restart.

NOTE: You can skip step 6 and 7 if you don't need full-screen support for MS-DOS on an Intel platform. Be sure to use a True Type font for the display as trhe bitmap font doesn't contain the characters you need.