rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck) (04/05/88)
Thats the trouble folks get into when they preannounce, right... I thought I had it working the way it should, so I sliced out most of the old comments to make the source fit in under 64k, added a doc file at the front, recompiled it under Lat. 3.03, 3.1 and 4.0 as well as Manx 3.4b with no warnings from anything... and tried it... hmm seems to do what I wanted it to.... Then I wrapped it up and sent if off to a couple of folks who 1. Hit the close box before the voice stopped talking (BOOM!) 2. Sent two speak requests in a row (HANG!) from REXX. Neither of these was the fault of the AREXX port that I did. Not so quick and dirty - the original speechtoy code was written with bug number 1 in place it seems. Also, the code disables the speak gadget while it is speaking because there is only one single I/O request block being recycled. The port comes in the back door, and bypasses all of that. So I have a bit more work to do on it. Time stands in the way. Definitely by Devcon, cause I plan to take it there with me. Rob Peck ...ihnp4!hplabs!ardent!rap