What's this: mode con codepage prepare=((850) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi)

[EmosOohay]

What's this: mode con codepage prepare=((850) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi)

As a final upgrade to my PIII systems I upgraded the CPUs to 850Mhz, the max the mobo will support.

After a reformat and reload of Windows 98 SE my autoexec file was modified by the Windows install script to contain the following commands:

mode con codepage prepare=((850) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
mode con codepage select=850

Could someone tell me what these commands are doing?

The system has started to lockup when I run a computer game so I'm chasing down everything I don't understand. The system was running fine (as far as I could tell) with the 850Mhz CPU before I reloaded windows.

TIA
EmosOohay

 

[morkinva]

That stuff looks like lines entered by the computer game setup, not windows. They look like entries to run the game in dos protected mode, I'm not sure. -- Lookie here

 

[Lukis142]

It sets the codepage (character setting) essentialy setting the language and special characters (codepage 850 = Latin-1)

Thank you for the information, but I am pretty sure the member is not still seeking the answer almost 18 years later.
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