Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: GCC2.81 and JAWS
Organization: Pacifier Online Data Service
From: mikef AT pacifier DOT com (Mike Freeman)
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Date: 14 Jan 1999 16:01:13 PST
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Hi.

I am a blind computer-user using speech synthesizer and screen-reading
programs. These are TSRs which intercept data going to the video display
and send them thru COM ports or via bus to speech synthesizers for
speaking. Till now, I have been using Eric Bohlman's "Tinytalk"
screen-reading program; it's admirable -- small and doesn't seem to get in
the way of things.

Recently, the firm Henter-Joyce, (www.hj.com) has released their
screen-reading program for MS-DOS, JAWS (Job Access with Speech) as
freeware so I'd thought I'd try it. For the most part, it's working quite
well, except ...

(1) When I load JAWS high, it will not load until I remove CWSDPMI.EXE
from upper memory. In other words, I must load JAWS high first -- then
load CWSDPMI high. Tinytalk (TTALK.EXE) wasn't that particular. This is a
minor annoyance.

(2) When running a program compiled with GCC2.81 (DJGPP) and using CWSDPMI
as the DPMI server, whenver the system() function is called, I get a "path
not found" message spoken. It appears and disappears so rapidly that I
never see it on the actual screen. From whence does this come and how can
I fix it?

(3) For those unfamiliar with screen-reading software, one tailors the way
it does things to particular programs -- one saves how much puncuationis
spoken, etc. This is known in the JAWS world as saving configurations.

When I run a program compiled with GCC2.81 and CWSDPMI, I cannot save
program-specific configurations -- JAWS just does nothing but goes back to
the menu of configuration options as if it had saved but doesn't give the
"okay" spoekn token that it did so.

I must go back to the MS-DOS command prompt to save configurations.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
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Mike Freeman; Internet: mikef AT pacifier DOT com; Amateur Radio Callsign: K7UIJ
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