[blinux-newbie] blind + linux = blinux

[Mike Gorse]

On 17 Mar 2000, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> Hi Mike:  When you send the Dectalk Express a ctrl-c it takes quite a
> while to clear the buffers and all.  They pull down a signal, I think
> it's cts, until the synth is ready again.  If you want to grab my
> dectlk.c driver out of the newdrv.tar.gz file on ftp.braille you can
> see how I handle that.  It is in the function speakup_write_tts().  I
> don't know about the internal either but it wouldn't surprise me if
> they have a register bit which should be monitored.  It doesn't work
> that way for the older Dectalk externals.  That's why we need to have
> separate drivers for both.
> 
Hi Kirk,

Thanks for the info.  I might try looking at your driver, although yasr
does try to set cts/rts handshaking.  Also, is documentation available for
the DEC-talk Express?  All I have is a manual for the pc which describes
most of the commands, but I think some things are different with the
express (ie, the manual I have seems to indicate that [:flush all] should
flush speech, but it doesn't seem to do anything on the express at
least.)  And yasr has code to try to deal with cases where write() doesn't
write everything, but that code isn't well-tested and could be
broken...  The issue may or may not occur with the pc though since it uses
its own driver.
 
-Mike-