c60c-1ea@web-2d.berkeley.edu (Yen Yuanchi Hsieh) (03/28/89)
Okay, take an original Workbench 1.3, boot, interrupt startup-seq. type in: ed ram:test <in editor> this is a test. this is only a test. <save file, exit> mount speak: copy ram:testfile to speak: Now, sometimes it "speaks" the whole file, usually, however, it speaks the first sentence and quits. Anybody else notice this? I think it has a better chance of dying when lots of other programs are running (is somebody dereferencing a freed pointer??... :-)) I have an A500, internal ram, external floppy drive and external 2 megs. More info as requested -- I've done everything I can think of, though. David c60c-1ea@WEB.Berkeley.Edu
rm2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert James McNicholas) (03/29/89)
Yes, I just noticed this the other day. I copied a file to speak:, and it kept
stopping after the first period in the file. I tried several times, and it
always stopped at the same place. Later, I happened to run Xoper, and I noticed
that there were a bunch of SPEAK: tasks just sitting around. I can't comment on
their state now, as I don't have my amiga handy, but this should be reproducible.
Also (this was mentioned a couple of months ago on c.s.a) , the opt keyword is
case sensitive (must be in lower case). This is made even worse by the fact
that the 1.3 enhancer manual gives examples showing it in upper case, which
don't work. Example:
copy foo speak:OPT/f/s200 won't work (file is spoken, but the options are
ignored), and
copy foo speak:opt/f/s200 will.
My system: Amiga 1000, internal 512K, Microbotics StarboardII w/2 megs, 1
external floppy.
System software: official 1.3 release (w/ setpatch)
other tasks running:
VirusX 3.10
Dmouse 1.10 (I think that's the right version: the last one that doesn't
need the dres library)
Conman (newest version, don't remember the number)
LAV (load average)
barclock (memory/time display)
workbench
probably at least 3 or 4 others that I can't remember now
If anyone at C/A needs more info, feel free to contact me. [Sorry, I couldn't
remember the address for bug reports.]
- Rob