Hi, Jerry, and thanks for your detailed reply. The problem is, you
don't start Z-Tree from DOS< you start it with an icon on the Desktop
which runs it. I already have my DOS box set up to behave exactly as
you dictate, but when Z-Tree starts, I get no talking. JAWS still
thinks I'm in a DOS box, but speech is not initiated, presumably
because the proper batch file that starts it never executes.
On Mon, 02 Aug 1999 21:21:56 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello Listers.
>
> In response to your inquiry about using z-tree in a Dos window and
it not
>working, I would ay the following.
>
> As you doubtless know, there are two ways to run Dos programs with
JFW,
>one marginally functional way, and one entirely acceptable way.
> The first, and probably most frequently utilized manner, is to
simply go
>to the MS-Dos prompt, hit enter and there you are. One must maximize
the
>window and do other things to optimize this approach. I never use
it.
> The second, and by very far, most satisfactory way, is to configure
JFW to
>allow for a separate screen reader when in Dos, accomplishable, as
you
>probably know, in the configuration menu. With this approach, your
current
>screen reader, say it's a soft synthesizer, will be put to sleep when
you
>exit to the Dos prompt and land in the Windows folder.
> Now, of course, since no Dos screen reader that I have used with
allow for
>soft synthesizers, one must have either an internal or external,
hardware
>speech synthesizer that can be run, say with Jaws 2.31, the program I
>always use when in Dos mode. I have a batch file I wrote that lives
in the
>Windows folder that I call that takes me to the Jaws for Dos
directoryy,
>brings up my speech, then takes me to the c prompt.
> You will finnd, if you have not already done so, that two lines
should be
>in your config.sys file if you use Dos frequently. They should
appear as
>follows:
>device=c:\windows\emm386.exe ram
>switches=/c
>
>The first line, again as you may realize, gives you additional
conventional
>memory when in Dos and allows for expanded memory. The second line
seems
>to do much magic, little of which I understand, that brings back thef
>eatures and behavior of Dos that we who used to depend upon it know
so well.
> Now, if you use the second approach and have these lines in your
config
>file, z-tree should work perfectly. Forgive me, please, if I have
assumed
>ignorance on your part as to the two above-mentioned approaches. You
may
>well be ahead of me here. At least, someone who wishes to use Dos
with JFW
>Windows may benefit from the discussion.
>
>Regards.
>At 10:52 PM 8/2/99 +0000, Steve Matzura wrote:
>>There's a program that runs in DOS mode that I want to use. I know
>>how to use my DOS screen reader with JAWS, that's not the problem.
>>The problem is, if I set JAWS to behave the way it should when I
want
>>to use a DOS screen reader in a DOS session, I launch the DOS-mode
>>Windows program and I don't get any speech. Using the program in
DOS
>>mode with JFW isn't really very workable without an awful lot of
>>special script-writing. FYI, the program in question is Z-tree, the
>>Windows version of the old standby, Xtree Gold that lots of us
>>probably remember from our good old DOS days. My question is, is it
>>possible to get my DOS screenreader to run when running a DOS-mode
>>Windows program, or am I really better off trying to develop scripts
>>for Z-Tree and leave it at that?
>>
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>
>Jerry
>
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