well I used type to read files but also a program called list that
did the same thing.
interestingly this reminds me about a command I used to do in the past.
Print con was one
the other thing I could was put copy con filename.ext and type whatever.
I couldn't review it but if I was doing something with batch files a
thing I was continously hacking for various reasons system
configurations mostly I used to do it all the time.
Though to sidetrack this a little Once I had to do something about a
laptop that was old with a broken \ key.
also the : and ; were broken.
I had to write a batch system so I could call a file for whatever I wanted.
it took ages but it worked for the time being.
as long as I remembered my list of files that was.
<sigh>
Those were fun days.
Now if something breaks well enough in windows you can't just ripp
out a module to make windows work.
If you do well you get up the creak.
I usually reformat when things get bad enough.
Its easier if possible to reload things instead of bothering with
registrys and such.
I also miss the fact i could restore a disk based system in 5 hours
less if I just wired it up to my win95 system with interlink and intersvr.
Those days are gone and some days I miss it and sometimes I don't.
I have just accepted that I will never get another dos system again.
But when dos was mentioned it brought back memmories of days where I
would run hints on windows and the games on dos I did that for 8 years.
Wouldn't have advanced foreward really if the system had not died.
At 09:39 p.m. 14/04/2011, you wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Actually in dos there was a specific way to put text on the screen
so that every single dos screen reader would speak it
automatically. It was called writing to the consul or bios of the
computer. It looked like;
OPEN "o", #1, "con"
LOCATE 24, 50: PRINT #1, " Jim Kitchen"
So once you opened a file number to the "con" every thing that you
printed to it would automatically get spoken by a dos screen
reader. I sure do wish that there was something similar for putting
text on the screen in Windows.
Thank you for the suggestion to check out the NVDA screen reader. I
down loaded it once, but never did install it. I do need to do that
one of these days. It's just that I have been using Jaws since December 1989.
BFN
Jim
I got my degree from Briggs and Stratton.
j...@kitchensinc.net
http://www.kitchensinc.net
(440) 286-6920
Chardon Ohio USA
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