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                                  COUNTRY
 
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. You can
use this command only in your CONFIG.SYS file.
 
The COUNTRY command configures MS-DOS to recognize the character set and
punctuation conventions observed when using one of the supported languages.
 
Syntax
 
    COUNTRY=xxx[,[yyy][,[drive:][path]filename]]
 
Parameters
 
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.
 
Related Commands
 
For information about changing characters and their arrangement on your
keyboard, see the <KEYB> command, or see the chapter "Customizing for
International Use" in the MS-DOS User's Guide.
 
For information about preparing and selecting character sets, see the
<MODE (set device code pages)> command.
 
For information about loading country-specific information, see the
<NLSFUNC> command.
 
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