[DECtalk] File association problem

Brandon Misch bmisch2002 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 7 07:58:31 EST 2011


is there a recording of this around? 

On Feb 7, 2011, at 7:14 AM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote:

> Indeed it was happy birthday, son to his daughter Laura. Shortly after that someone in our group had a birthday so we programmed the DTC 01 to call him at three o'clock in the morning to wish him a happy birthday.
> 
> The speech program was really meant as a test program and not an application. It is dumb as a stump and assumes any file fed to it is ASCII text.
> 
> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Alex H. <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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