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- SAYTIME
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- By Laith Farjo
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- INTRODUCTION:
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- SayTime is a program that will, upon loading, announce itself and then hide
- in memory. You will then be able to run most other programs as you would
- normally. But, when a special trigger key is pressed, SayTime will speak the
- time while you are inside another program.
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- REQUIREMENTS:
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- IBM PC or compatible with at least 128K is required to run SayTime. 128K
- will not allow you to do very much so more memory is highly recommended.
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- DISCLAIMER:
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- In no event will the author of SayTime, Laith Farjo, be liable to you or any
- other party for any damages, including loss of profits, loss of savings, or any
- other incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use of or
- inability to use this program, even if I have been advised of the possibility
- of such damages.
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- A NOTE TO THE PROSPECTIVE USER:
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- SayTime is being distributed in the Public Domain. It may be copied and
- shared freely, but MAY NOT be sold. If you enjoy and/or find SayTime of value
- a minimal contribution of $5 will be *greatly* appreciated and will encourage
- the author to write further programs. Contributors will also be the first to
- be notified of any updates to SayTime.
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- Please send contributions to:
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- Laith Farjo
- 5924 East Joy Road
- Ann Arbor, MI 48105
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- Well, now that we've got the business out of the way, let's get down to
- business:
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- HOW TO USE SAYTIME:
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- Before SayTime can be loaded, the speech module T-SPEECH.COM (modified
- SPEECH.COM by Andy McGuire) must be loaded FIRST.
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- SayTime can be loaded with the following options:
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- a : The program will also announce whether it is AM or PM.
- v : The program will preface the time by the statement "The time is:".
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- Sample loadings at the DOS prompt:
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- SAYTIME /a
- SAYTIME -av
- SAYTIME
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- As you probably have noticed, the option separator does not matter, so choose
- anyone you feel most comfortable with or you don't have to use one at all
- (there must be a space after "SAYTIME", though).
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- SayTime will load, display a non-destructive title screen, and will wait for
- you to press a key. When you do so, the window will disappear and you will be
- free to run most any other program.
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- When you press the ALT-F10 key (accomplished by holding down the ALT key while
- pressing F10), SayTime will speak the time and then return you to whatever you
- were doing.
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- MEMORY USAGE:
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- SayTime works in conjunction with T-Speech. They are both memory resident
- and therefore use up some of your computer's memory. SayTime and T-Speech
- require approximately 33K and 21K, respectively. Therefore, the whole system
- will occupy about 54K in memory.
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- The SayTime module can be unloaded and freed from memory. This can be
- accomplished by pressing Control-Home AT THE DOS LEVEL.
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- NOTE: IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU DO NOT TRY TO UNLOAD MEMORY WHILE INSIDE
- ANOTHER PROGRAM. THIS WILL CAUSE A "HOLE" TO BE LEFT IN DOS AND
- UNEXPECTED RESULTS COULD OCCUR.
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- The T-Speech module cannot be removed from memory without rebooting or
- turning off the computer.
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- MANY THANKS TO:
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- Andy McGuire: He wrote SPEECH.COM (which is copyrighted by him). This
- includes ALL the speech synthesis work (I had *no* part in this..).
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- Lane H. Ferris and Neil J. Rubenking: They wrote the memory resident
- template (STAYRES.PAS and associated files) that was also used to write
- SayTime.
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- Jim Margarit: He modified SPEECH.COM (and renamed it to T-SPEECH) and
- created TURBOLIP.COM to enable it to be called from Turbo Pascal (also
- copyrighted), which was used to write SayTime.
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- If you have any problems/comments/criticisms you can contact me by the
- following ways:
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- 1. On Compuserve - my user ID is 75136,3422.
- 2. On the Inanet BBS - (313) 665-4472. Please leave the message in
- either the IBM or the Private message area.
- 3. You could always just send me old fashioned mail by my address above.
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- Well, I guess that does it. Have fun and enjoy!
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