Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/04/11:29:33
On Sun, 2 Feb 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote:
> I've not tried that via serial link, I'm surprised you were able to
> get it to work at all that way. If I could figure out a way to
> simulate a serial link on a single machine there might be some
> possibilities
> there.
Well, if you want to do it on a single machine you can link to
serial ports together, run TASKMGR, open 2 tasks, run Marshall
Dudleys DOORWAY.EXE program under 1 task (sending out via COM1)
and run TELIX or some other comm program in the second task
(reading in from COM2). This will work guaranteed. (I've done
it so I'm sure it will work.) Only thing was that I used
DESQview at the time and not TASKMGR.
DOORWAY traps all BIOS/DOS screen writes and ANSIizes them and
sends them out the serial port. It also scans video memory and
compares it with the last scan of video memory. Any differences
encountered are translated into ANSI codes and also sent out the
port. I'm surprized that your speech software doesn't do this
allready since the concept seems quite easy. Do you have access
to source code for the software? If so, I'm willing to have a
look at it and see if I can whip up code to scan video memory
like doorway does. Just let me know.
TTYL
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