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APPENDIX E
COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS

Vocal-Eyes offers several command line parameters.  These are commands you
can issue at the DOS prompt.  Each of these commands will be described below.
These commands will only relate to the Vocal-Eyes command line.  For a
description of the Speech Driver commands, refer to Appendix F.

First we will describe the one time startup parameters.  These are the
commands that can ONLY be issued the very first time Vocal-Eyes is started up
each session.  If you attempt to issue them while Vocal-Eyes is already
loaded, they will simply be ignored.  After these commands, the commands
which can be issued anytime or will be listed.

VE.COM ONE TIME STARTUP PARAMETERS

/!Fn n = 1-9  Allocate maximum number of RAM .SET files.  Default = 1.
Before you can load several .SET files in RAM, you must first allocate the
maximum number of locations with this command.

/!Kn n = 0-9  Key label dictionary buffer size.  Default = 2.  This is used
to allocate the maximum size of the key label dictionary buffer.  Each number
is multiplied by 512 bytes.  For example, a setting of 9 would actually
allocate 9 * 512 or 4608 bytes of storage.  A setting of 0 will not allocate
any space for the key labels.  You will not be able to load any key labels if
this is the case.   However, you will have freed up 1024 bytes of RAM space.

/!Cn n = 0-9  Character dictionary buffer size.  Default = 1.  This is used
to allocate the maximum size of the character dictionary buffer.  Each number
is multiplied by 256 bytes.  For example, a setting of 5 would actually
allocate 5 * 256 or 1280 bytes of storage.  A setting of 0 will not allocate
any space for the character dictionary.  You will not be able to load any
characters if this is the case.  However, you will have freed up 256 bytes of
RAM space.

/!Vn  n = 0-9  Video clipboard buffer size.  Default = 4 (1,024 bytes).  This
is used to allocate the maximum size for the clipboard buffer.  Each number
is multiplied by 256 bytes.  For example, a setting of 5 would be 5*256=1,280
bytes of storage.  A setting of 0 will not allocate any space for the buffer.
If you try and copy information to the clipboard and the buffer is not large
enough, Vocal-Eyes will give you an error message and abort the copy.

/!Lx  x = 0 or 1  Auto Lightbar buffer.  Default = 1 (on).  Because the auto
lightbar requires a relatively large amount of memory, you have the option of
disabling this feature and freeing up this memory.  By disabling the Auto
Lightbar, you will free up about 2K of memory.  Vocal-Eyes by default will
enable the auto lightbar.  If you disable this and set the lightbar setting
to auto, Vocal-Eyes will treat it as if you had set lightbar off.  Turning
lightbar on however will always work correctly regardless of this setting.
Only the auto setting will be effected.

/!ME - This will cause Vocal-Eyes to load into Expanded memory.  If your
machine supports Expanded memory, you may wish to give this a try.  If
Vocal-Eyes has successfully loaded into your expanded memory, you will get
the message "Loaded into expanded memory."  Unfortunately, all Expanded
memory drivers are not created equal.  Therefore, you should try several
application programs while Vocal-Eyes is in expanded memory.  If nothing
unusual happens, you can assume Vocal-Eyes is compatible with your memory
driver.  If you have a choice between expanded and extended, you should use
extended.  Extended memory is faster and more reliable.

/!MX - This will cause Vocal-Eyes to load into Extended memory.  If your
machine supports Extended memory, you may wish to give this a try.  If
Vocal-Eyes successfully loaded into your extended memory, you will get the
message "Loaded into extended memory."  Before you can use your extended
memory, you must load the HIMEM.SYS device driver supplied on the Vocal-Eyes
disk.  You need to add a line in your CONFIG.SYS file 'DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS'.
This is assuming you have the HIMEM.SYS driver in the root directory.  Only
if this device driver is loaded will Vocal-Eyes load into extended memory.
If your machine has both extended and expanded memory, you may want to try
this option first.  Vocal-Eyes has a tendency to execute faster in extended
then expanded.  It all depends on how good your expanded memory driver is.
As with expanded memory, you should first try Vocal-Eyes with several of your
application programs.  If nothing unusual happens, you can assume Vocal-Eyes
is compatible with your extended memory.  Better safe than sorry!

/!OE - This will cause Vocal-Eyes to load the overlay file (VE.OVL) into
expanded memory.  If Vocal-Eyes was able to load the overlay file into
expanded memory, you will get a message indicating this.  If you do not get
the message, you can assume Vocal-Eyes was unable to allocate enough expanded
memory.

/!OX - This will cause Vocal-Eyes to load the overlay file (VE.OVL) into
extended memory.  If Vocal-Eyes was able to load the overlay file into
extended memory, you will get a message indicating this.  If however, you do
not get the message, you can assume Vocal-Eyes was unable to load the overlay
file into extended.

Loading Vocal-Eyes into expanded or extended memory is completely independent
of loading the overlays into expanded or extended memory.  You could for
example load Vocal-Eyes into extended and the overlays in expanded.  Or
Vocal-Eyes in extended and the overlays in extended.  It really does not
matter.  The advantage of loading the overlays in expanded or extended memory
means they can be loaded faster and you do not have to worry about DOS being
unable to always load the required information from the VE.OVL file.

VE.COM ANYTIME PARAMETERS

/Fnp  n = 1-9 (RAM location), p = .SET file name.  This will load the
specified file (p) into the RAM location specified (n).  Remember, if you
wish to have more than 1 RAM location, you must issue the /!Fn parameter to
allocate the desired locations.  Once allocated, you can load as often as you
like.  For example, the command /F7C:\WP\WP  would load the file WP.SET which
is on the C: drive in the WP directory into RAM7.  You can repeat this
command on the same command line as many times as DOS will allow.  If you
load into RAM1, the specified information will become active.

/Rn  n = 1-9 (RAM location)  This will make the .SET file in the RAM location
n active.  It would be like pressing the load RAM SET hotkey and pressing the
number you specified for n.  Be aware of the autoloading feature.  If you
load a .SET file with this command and execute a program, Vocal-Eyes will
reload the new .SET file if it exists.

/Cp  p = Character dictionary path and name.  This will load the specified
character dictionary (p) into the character dictionary buffer.  For example,
the command /CB:\LOTUS\LOTUS would load the file LOTUS.CHR which is on the B:
drive in the LOTUS directory.  Remember, Vocal-Eyes will default to a 256
character buffer.  If you wish more, you must use the /!Cn command.

/CC - This will clear the entire Character dictionary buffer.  This can be
used if you don't wish to load a new character dictionary but you don't want
to use the existing one either.

/Kp  p = Key Label dictionary path and name.  This will load the specified
key label dictionary (p) into the key label dictionary buffer.  For example,
the command /KDBXL would load the file DBXL.KEY into the key label buffer.
Vocal-Eyes would first look in the default Vocal-Eyes directory.  If found it
would be loaded.  If not, Vocal-Eyes will look in the current drive and
directory.  If there, it will be used.  This same search is done with the /Cp
command as well.

/KC - This will clear the entire key label dictionary buffer.  This can be
used if you don't wish to load a new key label dictionary but you don't want
to use the existing one either.

/Ax  x = 0-2.  This command with either disable the autoloading feature,
enable it without messages or enable it with message.  By default, Vocal-Eyes
has the autoloading enabled without message.  The valid options are:

/A0 - Disable the autoloading altogether
/A1 - Enable autoloading without verbal message (default)
/A2 - Enable autoloading with verbal message during loading and reloading

With autoloading enabled, Vocal-Eyes will automatically load a .SET, .KEY and
.CHR file from the default Vocal-Eyes directory with the same name as the
application program being executed.  Vocal-Eyes will also automatically load
DOS.SET, DOS.KEY and DOS.CHR when you shell to DOS.  When you exit the shell,
the original information will be reloaded.  Vocal-Eyes can actually go 15
levels deep and be able to reload all 15 levels.  If Vocal-Eyes tries to
autoload a new .SET file which does not exist, the original .SET file remains
active.  If a key label or character dictionary does not exist, you have a
choice of what should be done using the following command line parameters:

/AKC - This tells Vocal-Eyes to 'C'lear the current key label dictionary if
the requested file does not exist.
/AKL - This tells Vocal-Eyes to 'L'eave the current key label dictionary if
the requested file does not exist.

/ACC - This tells Vocal-Eyes to 'C'lear the current character dictionary if
the requested file does not exist.
/ACL - This tells Vocal-Eyes to 'L'eave the current character dictionary if
the requested file does not exist.

/H - There are several programs available today such as QEMM which allow you
to load Vocal-Eyes in high memory.  This is not expanded or extended memory
although it is memory between the 640K and 1 MEG space.  If you plan on
loading Vocal-Eyes in high memory with these types of programs, you must
include the command /H on the Vocal-Eyes command line parameter for all
reloads of Vocal-Eyes.  You should not include it the very first time
Vocal-Eyes is loaded for each session but for all others.  The /H simply
tells Vocal-Eyes to look in high memory for itself for each reload.  If you
load Vocal-Eyes in high memory and reissue Vocal-Eyes with new command line
parameters and don't specify the /H, Vocal-Eyes will not notice it has been
loaded high and reloaded a second time.  This would mean two copies of
Vocal-Eyes are running at the same time.  If this every happens, reboot your
machine and only load Vocal-Eyes once.

; - If you end the entire command line with a ; (semicolon), Vocal-Eyes will
not speak its usual message.  This is good for batch files where you want to
keep unnecessary chatter to a minimum.