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                               CHCP──Examples
 
To view the active character set setting, type the following command:
 
    chcp
 
MS-DOS responds with a message similar to the following:
 
    Active code page: 437
 
To change the active character set to 850 (Multilingual), type the following
command:
 
    chcp 850
 
MS-DOS alerts you if the specified character set has not been prepared for
your system. The following error message appears:
 
    Invalid code page
 
If a device (monitor, keyboard, printer) is not prepared for a character
set, MS-DOS displays an error message in the following format:
 
    Code page 850 not prepared for device nnn
 
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