Displaying Current Device Code Pages

To display the current code pages for your console screen device, enter the following:

C:\> mode con cp

OpenDOS displays a message similar to this one:

Example B–1 OpenDOS Output

Active code page for device CON is 437hardware code
pages:	Code page 850prepared code pages: 	Code page 437 	Code page
850 	Code page not prepared 	Code page not prepared MODE Status
Code page function completed