vDos (unmodified) uses the keyboard specified in Windows as the ’keyboard layout for
non-unicode applications’ (not the system keyboard, the keyboard layout for non-unicode
applications).
vDosXy, on the other hand, works like this (quoted from the source code repository):
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Notes on the modified keyboard handling:
You will notice that on the vDos command line, the keyboard layout is fixed to US. Within XY3 the
keyboard will be mapped correctly by XY3's keyboard handling routines.
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Jos Schaars, the author of vDos, can do nothing about this. You will have to ask the author of
vDosXy for help.