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From: Rick.Alfaro@f8.n369.z1.fidonet.org (Rick Alfaro)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: PCPLUS with VOS
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Date: 12 Aug 90 04:00:43 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Nolan,

I tried calling you at the number you listed, but got a partial
recording. In refference to your question about procomm plus, the
change you made to the snow removal does cause incoming data to use
bios and should speak as it currently does for you.  However, any
screen writing that pcplus does itself to the screen is still using
direct screen writes and will not talk interactively.  I don't
think vos is your problem.  The same would happen with any screen
reader.  If you want everything to talk, including file transfers,
and don't want to go back to procomm v2.42, I strongly suggest you
try Telix and configure it to use bios.  It does have a switch you
can use on the command line to force this or you can set it from
the configuration menu.  If you have Telix set to use bios for
screen writing, everything will talk including menus, incoming
data, and file transfers.  It also occurs to me that vos does have
a way of monitoring a predefined window.  Perhaps you could set up
a window that would cover just the very small area on your screen
that shows the progress of the transfer like say the block count or
byte count.  If vos does have such an ability, then you should get
a talking window that will speak every time that window changes.
Depending on how vos handles this type of window, there may be a
fair possibility however that this method might interfere with your
transfers. Hope this help somewhat...

Regards, Rick

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