Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/24/19:37:50
As some of you may be aware, provox is one of
the screen review packages which is freeware used by
print disabled computer users. I've been successful running provox from
an opendos created boot disk and am doing that right now.
There was a failure however once opendos was installed
on my hard drive however. Provox managed to load in config.sys but it
appeared the
computer hung after that. I loaded provox after dpms.exe and emm386.exe.
I have more hacking to do on this end as things stand.
Load order may be having some kind of impact, and emm386.exe may have to
be
run with pic=on option in autoexec.bat file.
One thing that was very surprising to me this morning when I tried
this installation for the first time using the
fixed opendos (2nd release) was that partly through my boot up my printer
which is an epson fx on lpt1 started printing.
I have to check the print out since some intelligible material might
be on that papger. The printer printed over a page and showed no signs of
stopping so I turned it off. There were two or three intermittent
double beeps that came from the computer while the printing was happening.
Finally, I left the installation alone at 2 o'clock and got back to it
about 9 o'clock.
by that time even with no disk action happening any key I hit on the
keyboard beeped like the keyboard was already overflowed. So I hit the
reset button and
started on this second adventure.
A note about edit.com is that it doesn't honor newui=off or
the /n parameter on the command line. In fact any attempt to use /n on
that command line
gets an error message.. Finally, possibly that newui statement might be
in more than one file, since only part of install.exe honored it. The
last statement you hear before you
have to force speech is reading taskmgr.ini.
This isn't impossible, it's just not yet ready yet.
jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>
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