From: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 11:09:11 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca To: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com cc: "Ian 'DrDebug' Day" , opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Re: [opendos] Was: A more ordered fixlist Now: Memory mapped video is cool? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: Total disorganization. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk 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 Mike A. Harris | http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris Computer Consultant | My webpage has moved and my address has changed. My dynamic address: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca 4DOS can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.std.com/vendors/jpsoft