POSTED-TO: fd-dev@topica.com
DATE:      17th - August - 2001

Dear all,

I am grateful to announce that a new version of XKEYB, XKEYB 1.7 is ready for download.
XKEYB is the open source free keyboard manager used under FreeDOS.

This new version has the following features:
- LED support completely removed, which seems to fix the infamous bug of CapsLock "lock" bug, that affected some PCs, and now it seems to be fixed for at least for 98% of the PCs that I know. If you suffered from this bug, please test it and let me know. Please, do also pay attention to the LED behaviour as you press CapsLock(Axel)
- Improved search of .KEY files (also in current dir) (Ralf and Aitor)
- Added help (/?), changed the startup description lines for a simpler line (Aitor)
- XKEYBRES now included inside XKEYB.PAS (using defines) (Aitor)
- Reported values of BX/CX with int2Fh, AX=AD80h are switched
  (to improve MS KEYB compatibility) (Aitor)
- There is now a makefile to build the sources (Axel, Ralf and Aitor)
- Most of the messages are now displayed in English  (Ralf)
- Added br850.key (for Brazil, codepage 850) (Alain)
(contributors: Aitor Santamara_Merino (maintainer), Axel Frinke, Ralf Quint, Alain Mouette)

Here they are issues to be looked after for the following releases:
- Is RU.KEY actually working?
- Translate source comments into English
- Check a bug I just come accross with some combination characters (at least with SP.KEY)
- Fix the numeric '/'key bug (which is nontrivial)
- Review the HTML-Help file, to see if it is up to date

And of course, further away, introducing support for different codepages on the same keyboardlayout, through INT 2Fh, MUX=ADh; (and yes, there are many other wishes ;-))

You can download the files from here:

http://inicia.es/de/aitorsm/FreeDOS/DwnLoad/xkeyb17x.zip  (binary, 71Kb)
http://inicia.es/de/aitorsm/FreeDOS/DwnLoad/xkeyb17s.zip  (source, 44Kb)

Aitor