That is because they are direct screen writes. Jamal Mazrui wrote a little terminal emulation program that paints the string a second time and in doing so echoes the text to the terminal program causing speech to come out. The problem is that this is DOS and secondly, there is no cursuring. So the question mark goes through bios standard output and the at sign i a screen write. -- charie. On Mon, 5 May 2003, jude dashiell wrote: > Interesting you mention dbase. I used to program with that. Would you > try something for me and let me know what happens? Try writing a little > program file and put the line: > > @ 5,5 say "Hello World!" > in the program and then run the program? Those say commands wouldn't > write the same way the ?? command would. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
