[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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