This is exactly what I did to solve my problem when I run Z-Tree. It
starts off with a batch file, I just edited that batch file and added
startup commands for my DOS screen reader. Worked out great!
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 06:20:16 -0400, you wrote:
>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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