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From: georgew@tekig4.UUCP (George Walker)
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Subject: answers to some recent questions
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Date: Sun, 7-Dec-86 01:28:53 EST
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At last!  Someone asked some questions I can answer.

1) Someone asked how to do I/O redirection with speak.tos (or any other
   program) when you don't have a shell.  GEM has a built-in shell of
   sorts.  If you rename a *.TOS file to *.TTP, it will prompt you for
   command line arguments, including redirection of stdin and stdout.  So
   rename speak.tos to speak.ttp and double-click on it.  When the box
   comes up to prompt you, just type <filename.  Filename can be a full or
   partial path.  By the way, this worked for stspeech.tos, too, but the
   problem was that stspeech required ^C from the keyboard to exit, whereas
   speak exits on end of file.  Also, speak suppresses the display of the
   phonetics and reads double-spaced files correctly.
2) Someone asked about TOS ERROR 35.  Technically, this means too many files
   are open, but in practice, it usually means you got a bad copy of the
   program you are trying to run.
3) Someone asked about Microsoft Write (aka Macintosh Word).  This is
   supposed to be out this month, I think.  There is a nice two-page ad in
   the latest issue of Newsweek that shows the ST with various applications,
   including Microsoft Write.  (Neil, why didn't they use a picture of
   Flight Simulator II as well?)  At the same time Microsoft Word comes out,
   Atari will cease to bundle 1STWORD with the ST.  The new 1STWORD allows
   merging text and graphics, and will be sold separately.  I hope Atari
   knows what it's doing; one reason I bought my ST was that it came
   bundled with a decent word processor (though if 1STWORD is cheap, I guess
   it doesn't make much difference - Commodore still has no WP for the Amiga).
   Microsoft Write will list for $129.95.