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MS-DOS Internal Commands

The COUNTRY Command

Description:

Enables MS-DOS to use country-specific conventions for displaying times, dates, and currency; for determining the order by which characters are sorted; and for determing which characters can be used in filenames.

The COUNTRY command configures MS-DOS to recognize the character set and punctuation conventions observed when using one of the supported languages.

Command Syntax:

COUNTRY=xxx[,[yyy][,[drive:][path]filename]]

Explanation of Syntax:

xxx specifies the country code.
[yyy] specifies the character set for the country.
[drive:][path]filename specifies the location and name of the file containing country information.

Command Use:

This command can only be used in the config.sys file.