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From: rac@sherpa.UUCP (Roger A. Cornelius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: spooler for COM port
Keywords: spooler COM
Message-ID: <17@sherpa.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 89 01:55:52 GMT
Organization: Personal System Computing, St. Petersburg, FL
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A friend of mine is looking for a com spooler/buffer (in software)
similar to the software print spoolers available.  My friends wife is
blind, and they have some type of a speech synthesizer/software combination
which writes directly to the com port.

The problem is, when a bunch of text gets dumped to the speech board,
it can take several (many) minutes for it to be synthesized and output
via the speaker.  This ties up the machine, and sometimes locks it up
if it really gets overloaded.  It would be nice to continue working
while the buffered data gets spit out at whatever pace it can handle.

He's tried MODE, and various combinations of redirecting things back
and forth without any luck.  So, to sum up, I guess what my friend wants
is something (in software) that will buffer data going to a com port,
or if anyone has any other suggestions on how to solve the problem, I'm
sure he'd be grateful.

Thanks,
Roger
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Roger Cornelius       rac@sherpa
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