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Configuration using Country
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   The `COUNTRY' variable is recommended for people which also have
access to MS-DOS system files and documentation. If you don't have
access to these, I'd suggest you'd rather use explicit tables instead.

   Syntax:

   `COUNTRY="'COUNTRY`[,['CODEPAGE`],' COUNTRY-FILE`]"'

   This tells mtools to use a Unix-to-DOS translation table which
matches CODEPAGE and an lowercase-to-uppercase table for COUNTRY and to
use the COUNTRY-FILE file to get the lowercase-to-uppercase table. The
country code is most often the telephone prefix of the country. Refer
to the DOS help page on "country" for more details. The CODEPAGE and
the COUNTRY-FILE parameters are optional. Please don't type in the
square brackets, they are only there to say which parameters are
optional. The COUNTRY-FILE file is supplied with MS-DOS, and is usually
called `COUNTRY.SYS', and stored in the `C:\DOS' directory. In most
cases you don't need it, as the most common translation tables are
compiled into mtools. So, don't worry if you run a Unix-only box which
lacks this file.

   If CODEPAGE is not given, a per country default code page is used.
If the COUNTRY-FILE parameter isn't given, compiled-in defaults are
used for the lowercase-to-uppercase table. This is useful for other
Unices than Linux, which may have no `COUNTRY.SYS' file available
online.

   The Unix-to-DOS are not contained in the `COUNTRY.SYS' file, and
thus mtools always uses compiled-in defaults for those. Thus, only a
limited amount of code pages are supported. If your preferred code page
is missing, or if you know the name of the Windows 95 file which
contains this mapping, could you please drop me a line at
`alain@linux.lu'.

   The `COUNTRY' variable can also be set using the environment.