dosemu yet again: sorry

[Gene Collins]

Hello Janina and all.  I am using the same synthesizer for both the
dosemu and speakup sessions.  In order to get this to work, you need to
edit your Speakup source code, and comment out the lines in your driver
source code that register the serial device.  Again, if you don't know
what you are doing and it breaks because you commented out the wrong
code, or mangled the file in some other way, you get to keep all the
pieces.  Having Speakup not register the devices it will use is * NOT *
approved of as standard kernel policy.  If this works for you, great! 
If it doesn't, like I said, you keep all the pieces.  My guess is that
Kirk and Jim probably aren't interested in answering questions about
altering the source code to allow sharing of the serial port between
Speakup and external applications.  It's my intention to try an
experiment with dosemu and the /dev/synthe device later this weekend to
see whether that works or not.  If it does, great.  If not, well, the
/dev/synthe device is still under development, and we'll just have to
wait and see whether it's possible to make this work or not.

Speaking of Word Perfect, Janina, did you ever hear anything from the
fine folks at Corel about whether they would be willing to sell their
console version of Word Perfect separately?  I seem to remember that you
were going to ask them about this at one time.  Perhaps you said
something about this in the past, and I either missed it, or more
likely, just don't remember.  (smile).

Gene

>On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Gene Collins wrote:
>
>> Janina was commenting earlier about running full-screen DOS programs
>> like Word Perfect 5.1 and the like with ASAP.  I run ASAP with my dosemu
>> sessions all the time, and use such programs as the ONLINE BIBLE,
>> FOXPRO, etc. with no problem.  Of course, I am using a serial synth, a
>> LiteTalk, and not a built-in synth like the DoubleTalk.
>
>
>Very glad to hear this works, and very grateful for your clear and consice
>instructions on how to get dosemu working with this kind of cunctionality.
>
>Question:
>
>Are you using the same synth in dosemu that you use with speakup? Or is it
>a separate synth?
>
>One more thing: If we can now find a way to read .wpd files -- the newer
>WordPerfect file format, we'd have something very powerful here. I have
>Corel WordPerfect for linux on CDR, but do not have it installed
>currently. I expect there's a binary and libraries there somewhere that
>would provide downgrading .wpd to the older wp format used by WordPerfect
>5.1. Those utilities also provide access to other formats such as M$
>Word's .doc. It would be very helpful, imho, if we could access these
>functions via command line in linux. At least, I know I'd find this
>useful, but I think other people would like this as well.
>
>Is anyone interested in working on this? I think I can legitimately
>provide the application for this purpose.
>
>
>
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