Go in to the properties of the shortcut, and in one of the tabs, you will
find a place for a batch file. Type c:\jaws\jaws.bat, click Okay, and then
go in to your program.
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Matzura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: DOS-Mode Programs and Speech
> 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?
> >>
> >>-
> >>Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net
> >
> >Jerry
> >
> >-
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>
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