I used it in a dos box under win me with ASAP for dos, and it worked just fine. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 10:18 AM Subject: Re: Back from the "parted" beyond. (f > > That is interesting, Greg - > > Provox takes extreme measures not to hog the processor, but it > has still caused problems for me on some systems. Perhaps it > depends on the synthesizer also. A related reliable failure for > me has been when booting Linux from a loadlin in DOS. The loadlin > banner and credits screen rapidly fills the synthesizer buffer > and keeps it talking during the time the Linux kernel is testing > for the presence of the synth, and as a result the kernel cannot > find the synthesizer!!! Another case where the speech has to be > silenced before letting loadlin execute. Maybe the loadlin screen > output could be redirected to a null device - I have not tried > that - but provox also has a command line parameter to shut the > speech up, so it can be included in a batch file. > > Chuck > > > On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > Chuck, > > I just thought you might like to know that I've used rawrite with 4 disks while provox7 was running and talking, and they all booted and worked fine. So, I guess there is one exception to the rule (grin). > > Greg > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:56:16AM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > > One thing to keep in mind, which I am sure you already know, is > > > that rawrite is very touchy and needs the undivided attention of > > > your processor. That means you must disable your speech while > > > rawrite is executing. If you let your computer talk while rawrite > > > is executing you are virtually guaranteed to have disk errors in > > > the resulting floppy. > > > Chuck > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Dan Murphy wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Well Linux shows it as a 1.44 MB, and other floppies boot just fine. I > > > > think I'm going to try the whole process again with a later version of > > > > rawrite and see if that makes any difference. > > > > thanks for the suggestion, though. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>* > > > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > > > The Moon is Waning Crescent (47% of Full) > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>* > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > The Moon is Waning Crescent (44% of Full) > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
