Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 16:00:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Jude DaShiell Sender: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: dosbook program Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk Has anyone managed to print any of dosbook's chapters out to a file? The more I work with dosbook the more it's really necessary to get these chapters out of it in ascii text form! Things are happening in that package with color attribute manipulation that must mean something to sighted users but make absolutely no sense to blind users. I'm getting lots of color changes on certain parts of the screen and am willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that graphics rather than text descriptions were used in the Window and Print options menu. In any case those depending on screen review package don't necessarily translate to anything the original programmer intended. I have newui=off in the opendos.ini file and dosbook is still doing direct screen writes even with the /b switch being used. That's a badly behaved program and should be made to conform to the rest of the system or replaced. edit.exe is another bad actor, fortunately it's easily replaced with legacy editors that are known to work. Alternatively, the print chapters to disk files function should be accessible from the command line in dosbook. That way those who have difficulty with the interface can simply bypass it. jude