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- From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
- Subject: Re: difference between clippper and foxplus
- Message-ID: <viking.726787388@vincent1.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <9301111534.AA07782@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:23:08 GMT
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- "A. Kaniss" <dashiell@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL> writes:
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- >One difference is that with clipper it's possible to
- >compile for speech friendly programming.
- >This is the kind of programming you do when someone who might be
- >using a speech synthesizer is going to use the end product.
- >As far as I've been able to figure out,
- >fox plus can't do this.
-
- I'd say that depends more on the speech synthesizer and how
- it interprets the screen than on the product you're using it with.
- While I admit I don't know much about these products, there is a
- blind man working for ISU in the MicroProducts Center. FoxPro 2.0
- on a Zenith 386/25 seems to pose no problem for him.
-
- < Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >
- < ISU only censors what I read, not what I say. Don't blame them. >
- < "Are you *SURE* he's worth a Harley-Davidson?" -- my grandmother >
- < to my girlfriend, about me. "I'd better not say" -- my girlfriend >
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