From: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 00:04:17 -0500 (EST) To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca Cc: "Colin W. Glenn" , David Poehlman , "Paul J. Thompson" , dg AT dcs DOT st-and DOT ac DOT uk, opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Re: [opendos] TASKMGR problems, memory management In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk It takes the first 8 weeks of constant use of a speech synthesizer system to start getting used to the way those sound. After that it's time to learn command structure, and then dos. That's why I started out learning playing games. What's really tragic is that schools and colleges don't allow that kind of time for students to learn their synthesizers, and the students aren't able to do much well after that. On Tue, 4 Feb 1997 mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca wrote: > On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote: > > > On Sun, 2 Feb 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote: > > > > > install /? offers no options. > > > > This sounds like one of those times you need a file viewer to actually > > pore through the contents of the program and locate the text strings. It > > might follow dash tradition, aka install -? > > OUCH!!! You look through binary files with a file viewer and > speech software!!???!! Just to put myself in your shoes, I got > my TALKER program (comes with the SB16) to read INSTALL.EXE to > me. I couldn't take it anymore after about 2 minutes!!! MUCH to > scary. You must be very patient! > > jude