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Subject: (Manx) C questions
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Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 23:39:11 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 20 23:39:11 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Feb-87 16:45:21 EST
Reply-To: d@alice.UUCP (Daniel Rosenberg)
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[Stupid question #834.]

I recently plunked down 0.25 kilobucks for Manx 3.40a, and, of course,
got 3.20a with a promise of 3.40a Real Soon Now. (The lady on the phone
told me they were having contractions every few minutes, and that
was January 25.)

Anyway, I've been trying to use the narrator.device, playing with
stuff in the ROM Kernel Manual. It all failed - usually with
Guru Error 0000003 (address error, I think). Even the speechtoy
source provided on the Manx 3.20a examples disk failed. I am doing
this all under 1.2, and so I have to invoke the assembler myself,
but have otherwise encountered no other problems. (I've compiled
with and without the +L option on my 512K 1 drive Amiga 1000; the +L
option cut down on the number of invalid ptr/integer WARNINGs.)

Anyway... will Manx 3.4 fix this? Is it because things return longs
and I'm expecting ints? (Though I've tried to avoid it.) As usual,
any help is appreciated. All I really want is a simple function to
open the narrator.device, and another that will talk when fed
Arpabet phonemes.

[Stupid question #835.]

I recently modified the keymap and made some of my own fonts in
order to print out foreign characters. (Esperanto characters, would
you believe.) There are twelve characters which I nestled in
starting at 0xc0. Using the SetFont and SetMap programs, I get
the desired results. I cannot figure out, however, how to get
a C function that will read in the 8 bit ASCII values into
a char (or anything else). I also cannot find a very elegant
way of setting the font and fontsize (mainly because of the Guru
problems detailed above). Any suggestions?

Your time and effort is appreciated. I admit I'm still
a C peon.

Thanks,
-- 
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