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Article: 13680 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: can ms-kermit help with this illusive problem?
Date: 7 Sep 2002 11:06:45 -0400
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In article <a08c04ee.0209062050.2692c691@posting.google.com>,
Tyler Spivey <tspivey8@telus.net> wrote:
: here goes:
: i am visually impared, and have a dectalk pc speech synthasizer.
: it emulated both a serial and a paralel port.
: i can access it using echo to com2 (i set it up to use com2 instead of
: com4 for compat.)
: i can also access it with bios2 under ms-kermit.
:
: if i access it with echo, or with any other thing
: (quickbasic, etc) the responces don't come in.
: i don't know why, but it's just that way, but it works with kermit's
: bios2,
: meaning, i receive the responces on the screen that come through the
: dectalk.
:
I haven't seen DECtalk in many years, but as I recall it was a box
that reads English (ASCII) text and produces audible speech from it.
The ASCII text comes into DECtalk's serial port.
The DECtalk box is external, connected with a regular serial-port cable.
I don't know if it is a straight-through cable or a null-modem cable.
You send the ASCII text out the PC's serial port, through the cable, to the
DECtalk box, and it speaks to you.
In the 1980s, it was used (for example) to dial up to your VAX account
>from a voice phone, log in with touch-tones, and have your email read to you.
: i know this since i used a log file and captured them.
: my asic question is:
: i have a linux box on com1,
:
So you have a DOS computer with MS-DOS Kermit, and a second computer
with Linux, and you are using the DOS computer as a terminal to access
the Linux computer?
: and i would like to use emacspeak with its full capabilities,
: emulating (as far as possible)
: a normal dectalk express on my 386 (dectalk box).
:
: is there a way i can have:
: input from com1 go to com2,
: output from com2 go to com1
: and so on?
:
This is not something Kermit can do. If we are talking about a DOS
computer that uses MS-DOS Kermit as a terminal, it is something that would
require a TSR to monitor the screen buffer and copy newly arrived characters
to the speech device, whether it is connected to a COM port, a printer port,
or built in to the computer. This is the normal way that visually impaired
people use DOS.
- Frank