Hi, Walter:
I installed 4.2CD on my system, and of course have not encountered any
words with those high-ANSI characters in them yet! Will keep you all
posted.
On Thu, 03 Jun 1999 13:35:27 -0500, you wrote:
>Kark, here is the message that I posted, and this is the message that
I got
>from Susan Hayes who is in charge of the dectalk department. This
worked
>for me. I have a dectalk pc 1 internal, but follow the instructions.
>Watch, the first one is in installation, and the second one is just
to be
>unzipped over the first one, and notice what she says about the batch
file.
>
>As you may or may not know, the DECtalk PC1 board is a very old
product that
>has not been shipped/sold for more than three years. There is a
newer
>version board, the DECtalk PC2, which replaced the PC1 on its
retirement.
>However, this is just for your future reference. On to your issue:
>
>Firstly, there was no indication of the environment in which you are
>working: DOS or Windows. The solution is slightly different,
depending on
>which environment you are in. But the first place you have to go is
to the
>DECtalk WEB Site at the following URL address:
>http://www.digital.com/oem/products/dectalk/dtalk.htm
><http://www.digital.com/oem/products/dectalk/dtalk.htm>
>Once you are in this site, go to the "Support" section, and then go
to the
>"download" section. In the download section, there is a section for
the
>DECtalk PC1. Please make sure you are in the PC1 area, not the PC2
or the
>DECtalk Express areas.
>
>1) Then, following the instructions, download the file called 4.2.cc
and
>install it on your PC.
>2) Then, download the file called 4.2.cd and place these files in the
same
>directory where you installed the 4.2.cc file. The 4.2.cd file will
>overwrite certain pieces of the 4.2.cc file with bug fixes. Please
note
>that the 4.2.cd file is not an installation file; it is simply a
bug-fix
>file that overwrites certain sections of the 4.2.cc file, so don't
use the
>install routine for 4.2.cd.
>3) If you are in the Windows environment, you are now finished and
>should be able to use DECtalk with JAWS with no problems with the
accented
>characters.
>
>4) If you are in DOS, there is one additional step you need to do:
go
>into the DECtalk directory where you installed 4.2.cc and 4.2.cd and
scan
>through the dt.bat files until you find the dt_load statement that
should
>look like this:
> dt_load kernel.sys dtpcdic.dic lts.exe ph.exe cmd.exe usa.exe
> ADD at the end of this line the following argument: dtpc_850.exe
>
> When you are finished, the command line should read like this:
> dt_load kernel.sys dtpcdic.dic lts.exe ph.exe cmd.exe usa.exe
>dtpc_850.exe > NUL
>5) You are now ready to use DECtalk in the DOS environment.
>
>PLEASE NOTE: this should be used in a 'pure' DOS environment, that
is, you
>should not be running DOS in a Windows window.
>
>I hope this resolves the issue for you..
>
>Walter
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