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The Talking Checkbook - Version 6.7!
What's new.
* Here's our first release of the Talking Checkbook compiled
in Clipper version 5.2! The advantage is approximately 120
thousand less bytes of memory are needed to run the program and
folks who don't need speech access (no miracles cause we still
do) can run the program using the command line parameter of
"Checks Quiet" to get super fast direct screen writes. The
disadvantages are that those of us who rely upon speech will have
to put up with an occasional silence, which reading the current
line with our screen readers can cure.
The Clipper folks have assigned two developers to look at
the PCBIOS object code for speech users and I am hopeful that we
will get an updated release of the PCBIOS.obj file soon. The
problem with the speech object file provided by Clipper (don't
get to upset since they are the only ones trying to accommodate
speech users) was that it was presenting the same menu 2 and 3
times over which got to be mighty annoying. Hang in there and we
will get it right with Clipper since they are trying to help. In
any event, we all owe Jamal Mazrui a great debt of gratitude for
his work on getting Clipper Ver 5.2 to talk without the supplied
libraries from the company!
* If you've been trying to make electronic transfer payments
and got hung up in the withdrawal module hand the problem of
having "Auto Machine Withdrawal" in your "Pay to" field: you now
are free! Yup, Don changed the code to allow you to use the
withdrawal as an electronic transfer recorder. Thanks Don!
* Lastly, there were folks concerned about paper from the
printer ejecting unnecessarily when checks were not being
printed. Say, Don blew that little annoyance away as well.
* So how come I keep talking about Don and nothing on what
I've been doing? Well, I have been working on the Answering
Service Assistant software that hopefully will help some folks
start their own answering service business with a speech friendly
program. Stay tuned for more on that.
* future enhancements to the Talking Checkbook look like
electronic interfacing with private companies that do check
writing and interfacing with banking systems. We will need to
look at that closely since it would require a fair amount of work
to happen, but it is something well worth the effort.
Enjoy!
June 9, 1993 - Charlie Crawford.