[DECtalk] File association problem

Brandon Misch bmisch2002 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 6 20:34:48 EST 2011


it won't work. i tried it and 7 is the only windows machine i have. 

On Feb 6, 2011, at 8:26 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Yes, I did write Playdec many years ago. That might work, except that you'd 
> still have the association problem probably. Also, I have no idea if it 
> would work on Windows 7, and also the programming language I used to write 
> it, iBasic, seems to have disappeared. I've probably still got a copy laying 
> around, but I think it went away before Vista, let alone 7 was even 
> introduced.
> Jayson
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alex H." <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com>
> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 7:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] File association problem
> 
> 
>> Happy birthday from Dennis Klatt. He introduced singing into DT
>> because he wanted to say happy birthday to his daughter in a special
>> way. That's what I've heard.
>> 
>> I really can't comment on setting speak to open .en files with win7 as
>> I just use the builtin open function in speak directly. However, wasnt
>> there a playdec program written some years ago for the 4.3 program
>> that would dump a txt or .dec file into speak by copying the file and
>> runnig speak? I think with a few lines of code changed, it should work
>> for .en files too.
>> 
>> HTH.
>> alex
>> 
>> On 2/6/11, Brandon Misch <bmisch2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> isn't it that song about poisoning pigions in the park? that was on an 
>>> issue
>>> of playback magazine from 1991.
>>> 
>>> On Feb 6, 2011, at 7:03 PM, Flint Million (iPod) wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The dos tools came with "moonlight in Vermont" in the demo app. That's 
>>>> the
>>>> first song I ever heard.
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPod
>>>> 
>>>> On Feb 6, 2011, at 5:46 PM, "Blake Roberts" <beroberts at hughes.net> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I know the answer to Ed's trivia question. I'll let you guys keep
>>>>> guessing
>>>>> for a bit. No reason I should spoil this fun triviagame.
>>>>> Blake
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
>>>>> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of ebruckert
>>>>> Bruckert
>>>>> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 3:47 PM
>>>>> To: DECtalk Discussions
>>>>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] File association problem
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hello, I can't help you very well with changing file associations, but
>>>>> speak
>>>>> should be very happy with the.txt file that just tells it to you now
>>>>> treated
>>>>> as normal ASCII text.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Trivia question for you all;
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> What was the first song DECtalk saying and why.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Blake Roberts <beroberts at hughes.net>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>  All,
>>>>>  I wrote about this problem before. I am writing again because no
>>>>> response
>>>>>  has been received.
>>>>> 
>>>>>  I use the Dectalk 4.40 speak window to program songs. This version
>>>>> of the
>>>>>  speak window plays files with an .en extension. On my new Windows 7
>>>>>  computer, I am having problems setting up the EN file association.
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Whenever I tell Windows to use speak.exe to launch EN files (either
>>>>> via
>>>>>  properties, change or the "Open With" dialog], Windows automatically
>>>>> assumes
>>>>>  I want to use Windows Media Center for this file association. I
>>>>> remember in
>>>>>  Windows XP, there was a way to edit a file type manually. I have not
>>>>> yet
>>>>>  found a similar tool in Windows 7.
>>>>> 
>>>>>  I hope someone on-list has a suggestion for modifying the Dectalk EN
>>>>> file
>>>>>  association in Windows 7. I need help!
>>>>>  Blake
>>>>> 
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