you dont get my point. i want to use one of the supported synth as the front end doing the emulation in dos , the apolloo seems to work because it doesh't use control chars. i can get it to speak through my decpc's screen reader but i cant get it to stop sending that @f8. and theirs no way of shutting it up. i was hoping i could create another synthasizer driver for the deccpc without handshaking, because whenever i type com2 >com3 i can echo cmds to dtpc when i load speakup it screws up my decpc same with emacspeak. why would it screw it up. At 07:26 PM 10/22/00 +1100, you wrote: >Hi: > >If you rule out handshaking and control chars then I think you rule out >just about any synth ever manufactured. Dec PC will be supportable in the >future but not yet. > >Geoff. > > >-- >Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> >ICQ number 43634701 > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup