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                  The SPUTTER Sound System for the PC
                                v1.15

                      VersaWare / Adrienne Cousins
                            30 Jennifer St
                          Littleton, MA 01460
                         508-486-3083 (voice)


  SPUTTER is a set of programs, that form a full featured sound system that
  allows you to manage and play back many different types of sound files, on
  a variety of different devices.  All conversions are handled automatically,
  regardless of the type of device used to create the sound file.

  These are some of the major features of the SPUTTER Sound System:

        * Point-and-Play shell with pull-down menus and complete file
          management capabilities to let you play digitized sound
          files, synthesized music files, and text to speech files all
          from within the same program.

        * Allows you to attach any of these types of sound files to events
          on your PC such as Program Execution, File access, Disk access,
          Alarm clock settings and replacing the original beep sound.
          You can also attach sound files to individual key presses.

        * Supports many different output devices, including the PC internal
          speaker, Speech Thing, Voice Master, Sound Master, Sound Blaster,
          AdLib Music Card, Disney Sound Source and any other Digital to
          Analog Converter.

        * Supports many different digitized sound file formats including
          Covox (Speech Thing, Voice Master, Sound Master), Creative Labs
          (Sound Blaster), Tandy, Macintosh, Amiga, IBM CVSD files,
          Turtle Beach Softworks 16-bit (SampleVision), and 12-bit files.

        * Supports Adlib .ROL and Creative Labs .CMF synthesized music
          files on Adlib & SoundBlaster boards.

        * Includes a complete text to synthesized speech package that
          provides interchangable voice files and complete user control
          over pronounciation and inflection.

        * Can randomly select sound files to provide variation without
          having to change batch files regularly.

        * Can resample digitized sound files, to change the playback rate
          of a file so that it can be played on slower machines.

        * Includes enhanced support for DESQview and runs as a well-behaved
          program in a DESQview window.


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  First a little trivia... since I'm always asked where I got the name
  'Sputter' here it is...

  The first program to be written was the digitized file player, and I wanted
  to give it a name that would be an acronym and still have a nice ring to it.
  Hence, (S)oundfile (P)layer (UT)ility formed the acronym SPUT.  It was easy
  enough to say and just happened to remind me of the word SPUTTER.  The
  definition of SPUTTER is:

        SPUTTER 1: To spit out small particles in short bursts, often with
                   corresponding sounds or noises. (American Heritage)
                2: To utter words hastily or explosively in excitement
                   or confusion. (Merriam-Webster)
                3: To make small popping sounds. (Merriam-Webster)

  Sounded like a perfect choice to me!

                   ---------------------------------------

  The documentation is divided into the following sections:

        1. Installation Guide

        2. Quick Start User's Guide

           2.1  Starting the File Manager Shell
           2.2  Adding Sounds to your batch files
           2.3  Starting the Event Monitor
           2.4  File naming conventions
           2.5  Enlarging the environment space

        3. Reference Manual

           3.1  SPUTTER - File Manager

                3.1.1  Command syntax and switches
                3.1.2  Special function keys

           3.2  SPUTMON - Event Monitor

                3.2.1  Command syntax and switches
                3.2.2  Event definition file format
                       Event types
                       Event parameters
                3.2.3  Playing .ROL files from the event monitor
                3.2.4  Playing .CMF files from the event monitor
                3.2.5  Executing DOS commands & batch files
                3.2.6  Executing Smooth Talker from the event monitor
                3.2.7  Using the Event Monitor with DESQview
                3.2.8  Error messages
                3.2.9  Trouble shooting problems

           3.3  SPUT - Sound & Text Player Utility

                3.3.1  Command syntax and switches
                3.3.2  Special function keys
                3.3.3  Screen output
                3.3.4  Environment variables
                3.3.5  Dictionary file format
                3.3.6  Phoneme definitions
                3.3.7  Phoneme special functions
                3.3.8  Error messages
                3.3.9  Trouble shooting

           3.4  SPUTROL  - ROL File Player Utility

                3.4.1  Command syntax and switches
                3.4.2  Special function keys
                3.4.3  Screen output
                3.4.4  Environment variables
                3.4.5  Error messages

           3.5  SPUTCMF  - CMF File Player Utility

                3.5.1  Command syntax and switches
                3.5.2  Special function keys
                3.5.3  Screen output
                3.5.4  Environment variables
                3.5.5  Error messages

           3.6  SPUTWAVE - Waveform Viewer

           3.7  SPUTST   - Smooth Talker Utility

           3.8  SPUTONE  - DESQview One-window Utility

        4. Miscellaneous

           4.1  Acknowledgements
           4.2  Technical support
           4.3  Registration
           4.4  Future enhancements
           4.5  Sources of sound files
           4.6  Speaker output quality
           4.7  Disclaimer


  *************************************************************************
                       SECTION 1 - INSTALLATION GUIDE
  *************************************************************************

  Sputter is distributed in the following ZIP files, where 'nnn' is the
  latest version number (ie SPUT114 is version 1.14):

        SPUTnnnA.ZIP    All the required Sputter software & text files.

        SPUTnnnB.ZIP    Sample digitized sound files.
                        These files are playable on all sound devices.

        SPUTnnnC.ZIP    Sample .ROL and .CMF files with associated
                        drivers and instrument files.
                        These files are for AdLib and SoundBlaster boards.


  These three ZIP files are always distributed by the author to the
  following BBS's:

        Creative Labs BBS    San Jose CA  (CASJO)  408-986-1488 / 1489
        Channel One BBS      Cambridge MA (MABOS)  617-354-8873
        Exec-PC BBS          Milwaukee WI (WIMIL)  414-789-4210


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  Installation of SPUTTER is very simple, just execute the following steps.

  1) Create a directory for the Sputter software & associated drivers,
     and separate directories for the sound files.  The following is only
     an example, any preferred directory names may be used:

                \SPUT           for all the software
                \SPUT\SND       for digitized sound files
                \SPUT\ROL       for .ROL music files
                \SPUT\CMF       for .CMF music files

  2) Add the SPUT directory to your PATH statement.

  3) Place all of the Sputter programs and required files in the SPUT
     directory.  Those files are as follows:

        SPUTTER.COM             File Manager
        SPUTMON.COM             Event Monitor
        SPUT.COM                Sound & Text file player
        SPUTROL.COM             ROL file player
        SPUTCMF.COM             CMF file player
        SPUT.PHD                Voice file for text-to-speech
        SPUT.DIC                Sample Dictionary file for text-to-speech
        SPUTMON.DEF             Sample Event definition file
        SM-PIF.DVP              DESQview PIF for the Sputter Event Monitor
        SM-SCRIP.TXT            DESQview script file for SM-PIF.DVP
        SM-SCRIP.DVS            DESQview script file for SM-PIF.DVP
        SP-PIF.DVP              DESQview PIF for the Sputter Player Window
        SPUTONE.SHR             DESQview shared program

  If you are using a SoundBlaster or AdLib card to play .ROL music files
  the following files are also required from the SPUTnnnC.ZIP file:

        SOUND.COM               AdLib FM Sound driver
        STANDARD.BNK            AdLib Instrument Bank file

  If you are using a SoundBlaster or AdLib card to play .CMF music files
  the following file is also required from the SPUTnnnC.ZIP file:

        SBFMDRV.COM             Creative Labs FM sound driver

  The following files are also included in the distribution, but are not
  necessary for execution:

        SPUTTER.DOC             Sputter documentation file
        KEYS.TXT                List of scan-codes for KEY events.
        KEYS.DEF                Samples of KEY event definitions.
        LICENSE.TXT             Licensing information.
        MAILER.TXT              Registration mailer.
        PHONES.TXT              List of Phonemes from the Doc file
        SAMPLES.TXT             Samples of the Phoneme-functions
        WHATS.NEW               Description of the latest changes
        FUTURE.TXT              What's planned for future releases
        USES.TXT                Some ideas for using Sputter

  4) If you are using any sound device other than the PC Internal Speaker,
     you must add a line to define the port address of your sound board:

     For VoiceMasterKey I     SET SPUTARG=/P1          (or 2,3,4)
     For VoiceMasterKey II    SET SPUTARG=/P5          (or 6,7,8)
     For SpeechThing          SET SPUTARG=/P5          (or 6,7,8)
     For DisneySoundSource    SET SPUTARG=/P5-D        (or 6,7,8)
     For SoundBlaster         SET SPUTARG=/P220-S/IR3  (or 230,240,250,260)
     For AdLib card           SET SPUTARG=/P388-A

     You may also include any permanent switches you want to define for
     the sound file player:

                SET SPUTARG=/Q2

  5) Add a line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to define the path in which
     your sound files are stored similar to the following example:

                SET SPUTDIR=C:\SPUT\SND

  6) If you are using a SoundBlaster or AdLib card to play .ROL music files,
     add a line to define the path to your ROL files:

                SET SROLDIR=C:\SPUT\ROL

     and you may optionally add a line to define any permanent switches
     you want to define for the ROL file player:

                SET SROLARG=/Q2

  7) If you are using a SoundBlaster or AdLib card to play .CMF music files,
     add a line to define the path to your CMF files:

                SET SCMFDIR=C:\SPUT\CMF

     and a similar line to define any permanent switches for the CMF player:

                SET SCMFARG=/Q2


  *************************************************************************
                    SECTION 2 - QUICK START USER'S GUIDE
  *************************************************************************
               SECTION 2.1 - Starting the File Manager Shell
  *************************************************************************

  To start the Sputter Sound System, you must be at the DOS prompt.  Type
  'SPUTTER ' followed by the drive:directory that contains the sound files
  you want to work with, then press the ENTER key:

                SPUTTER C:\SPUT\SND <enter>

  or, if you are already in the directory you want to work with, just type
  the following:

                SPUTTER <enter>

  From the File Manager, just place the highlight bar on the file you want
  played and press the ENTER key.  Many other functions are available
  within the File Manager, which can all be found in the pull-down menus.


  *************************************************************************
               SECTION 2.2 - Adding Sounds to your batch files
  *************************************************************************

  To play a specific sound file from a batch file, just insert the following
  line, wherever you want the sound file to be played:

                SPUT <filename>                 for a sound file
        or      SPUTROL <filename>              for a .ROL file
        or      SPUTCMF <filename>              for a .CMF file

  Where <filename> is the name of the sound file you want to be played.

  To play a randomly selected sound file, just insert the following line
  wherever you want to hear a sound file:

                SPUT *                          for a sound file
        or      SPUTROL *                       for a .ROL file
        or      SPUTCMF *                       for a .CMF file

  To disable the screen output from the SPUT player utility, you can add the
  /Q switch to each of above command lines, or you can just put it in the
  environment once so that all screen output will be disabled as follows:

                SET SPUTARG=/Q2                 for sound files
        or      SET SROLARG=/Q2                 for .ROL files
        or      SET SCMFARG=/Q2                 for .CMF files


  *************************************************************************
                  SECTION 2.3 - Starting the Event Monitor
  *************************************************************************

  To setup the Event Monitor, you must first create an event definition file.
  A sample event definition file SPUTMON.DEF has been included in the
  distribution which may be modified to your preferences.

  To load the Event Monitor, type 'SPUTMON ' followed by the name of the
  event definition file, then press the ENTER key:

                SPUTMON SPUTMON.DEF <enter>


  *************************************************************************
                SECTION 2.4 - FILE NAMING CONVENTIONS
  *************************************************************************

        All of the Sputter player programs, have the ability to randomly
        select the sound file to be played.  This is a convenient way of
        adding variation to your system so you don't tire of hearing the
        same sound clips over and over again.

        At the same time, the player programs are also smart enough to
        recognize different file formats by the contents of the file,
        therefore making the extension not important.  This permits the
        renaming of sound files to any filename and extension that's
        preferred or convenient.

        These two features combined, provide a powerful way of randomly
        selecting specific types of sound files.  For example, if sound files
        are categorized in the following way:

                *.MUS           music sound clips
                *.TUN           cartoon sound clips
                *.ANI           animal sounds
                *.SFX           special sound effects
                *.MOV           quotes from movies

        then the command 'SPUT *.MUS' would randomly select one of the
        music sound clips, 'SPUT *.ANI' would select an animal sound, etc.
        The command 'SPUT *.*' would select a file from any category.

        Another example of this, is if you defined a BEEP event for the
        Event Monitor SPUTMON by adding the following line to the event
        definition file as follows:

                B *.ANI

        This would play a different animal sound in place of each system
        beep.

        Another method of sound file categorization is by directory, where
        sound files of similar type are stored in a separate directory for
        each category.  Then the following commands would randomly select
        files from the appropriate categories:

                SPUT \SPUT\SND\CARTOONS\*
                SPUT \SPUT\SND\MOVIES\*
                SPUT \SPUT\SND\ANIMALS\*

        Note that the filename and extension hold no special meaning
        for SPUT.  Any information needed for playback is retrieved
        from within the file.  Any reference to extensions within the
        SPUTTER documentation, is simply to aid you in determining the
        file format.  SPUT can always determine the file format from
        the contents of the file regardless of the filename & extension.


  *************************************************************************
               SECTION 2.5 - ENLARGING THE ENVIRONMENT SPACE
  *************************************************************************

  The environment is just an area of memory that DOS reserves for the purpose
  of defining variables that can be viewed by any program running.

  Each time you add a 'SET' command to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, the string
  that you type after the word 'SET' is stored in the environment space.

  The more of these 'SET' commands that you have, the greater the chance
  that you'll get to see the 'out of environment space' message from DOS
  while your system is booting up.  Not to worry... there is a solution.

  In your CONFIG.SYS file, add a line similar to the following:

                SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM/E:512/P

  The number after the '/E:' is the number of bytes that will be reserved
  for your environment space, and you can set it to whatever you require.
  The default is 128.


  *************************************************************************
                        SECTION 3 - REFERENCE MANUAL
  *************************************************************************
  *************************************************************************
                     SECTION 3.1 - SPUTTER File Manager
  *************************************************************************

  This section describes the point-and-play file manager named SPUTTER.
  From the File Manager, sound files can be played, viewed in waveform,
  viewed in ascii/hex mode, copied, renamed, moved and deleted, either
  individually or in tagged groups.

  ---------------------------------------
  3.1.1 SPUTTER COMMAND SYNTAX & SWITCHES
  ---------------------------------------

  To start the File Manager, simply type 'SPUTTER' at the DOS prompt and
  SPUTTER presents an alphabetized listing of the current directory with
  a menu on the right.  An optional drive and directory may be specified
  as the directory to be used, instead of the current directory.

  The command syntax for SPUTTER is as follows:

        SPUTTER [d:] [\directory] [/E] [/S] [/D] [/T] [/O]

  Optionally, the /E,/S,/D,/T and /O command line switches sort the
  initial directory listing by Extension, Size, Date (/D and/T are the
  same), or Original DOS order.  Once on screen, function keys can be
  used for subsequent sorts.

  Once started, SPUTTER will initialize the display as follows:

        . The top line is the Menu line, and is activated with the F10
          function key or the slash key (/).

        . The second line shows the currently displayed drive & directory.

        . The large window on the left is the directory window and contains
          a list of files in the current directory.
          The file attributes (Archive, Hidden, Read-only and System) are
          shown by the appropriate letters to the right of the time for
          each listed file.  A period is displayed for any file attributes
          that are not set.

        . The mid-sized window on the upper right is the info window and
          contains various counters, and the state of the toggle switches.

        . The smaller window on the lower right is the preview window
          and gives a peek at the contents of the currently highlighted file.

        . The line below the windows is the message line and displays
          various prompts and messages.

        . The next line is the input line, used for entering data.

        . The last line is the function key menu.


  DOS wildcards ? and * are supported for COPY, MOVE and DELETE operations.

  -----------------------------------
  3.1.2 SPUTTER SPECIAL FUNCTION KEYS
  -----------------------------------

  Once SPUTTER has been started, the following keys have meaning:

  A-Z
        Pressing a letter, moves the highlight bar to the first (then sub-
        sequent) filename beginning with that letter.

  Up & Down
        The Up and Down arrow key moves the highlight bar up or down one
        line at a time.

  Home & End
        The Home and End keys go to either the first or last file in the
        directory.

  PgDn & PgUp
        The Page-Up and Page-Down keys allow you to scroll up and down
        through the entire directory.

  Ctrl-PgDn & Ctrl-PgUp
        The Ctrl-Page-Up and Ctrl-Page-Down move to the top and bottom of
        the current display page (21 files).

  Left-Arrow & Right-Arrow or Grey+ & Grey-
        These keys are used to mark and unmark files.  After marking or
        unmarking a file, the highlight bar is automatically moved in the
        same direction that it was moved last.
        Multiple files may be tagged for group playing, viewing, copying,
        moving or deleting.

  F1 (Help)
        This key activates the Help pull-down menu.

  F2 (Args)
        This key displays the SPUT help screen.

  F3 (Dir)
        This key will cause SPUTTER to reread the current directory.
        This is useful if files have been created or added to the
        current directory since starting SPUTTER.

  F4 (Chdir)
        This key provides a way to change the current drive and
        directory without leaving SPUTTER.

  F5 (Mark)
        This key will cause all previously unmarked files to be marked.
        Files with an asterick are considered marked.  To remark files
        with an asterick, press F6 to clear all marks, then F5 to mark
        all files.

  F6 (Clear)
        This key will unmark all files including those with astericks.

  F7 (Pause)
        This key will toggle the state of the Pause-after-output switch.

  F8 (Output)
        This key will toggle the state of the Output switch.

  F9
        This key is currently unused.

  F10 (Menu)
        This key invokes the top line menu.

  ESCAPE
        Pressing this key exits SPUTTER, and returns to the DOS prompt.

  F10+File or Alt-F
        This key activates the File menu.

  F10+Sound or Alt-S
        This key activates the Sound menu.

  F10+Options or Alt-O
        This key activates the Options menu.

  F10+Help or Alt-H
        This key activates the Help menu.

  F10+Quit or Alt-Q
        This key activates the Quit menu.

  F10+Sound+Play or Enter
        The Play function initiates the playback process for either
        the highlighted or marked file(s).  This option requires the
        appropriate player program to be located in a directory that is
        listed in your PATH statement.

        The player programs used are SPUT.COM for digitized sound files,
        and text to speech files and SPUTROL.COM for .ROL synthesized
        music files.

        When a marked file is successfully played, it's marker arrow is
        replaced by an asterisk.

  F10+Sound+Quick or Ctrl-Enter
        The Play with Quick-arguments function initiates playback for the
        highlighted file, after prompting for an argument string.
        The prompt will appear in the message line, and you can enter
        any valid player switch with slashes. (See the appropriate
        section of the documentation for SPUT and SPUTROL switches).

        Note that if the /W switch to SPUT is used to create an 8-bit PCM
        file, or the COPY function is used to create files in the same
        directory, those files will not appear in the directory listing
        until you press F3 to re-read the current directory.

  F10+Sound+Last or Ctrl-P
        The Play with Last-arguments function initiates playback for the
        highlighted file, using the previously defined argument string.

  F10+Sound+Argument or Ctrl-A
        This key invokes the Argument selection menu.  CTRL-A will invoke
        the Argument selection screen for sound files.

  F10+Sound+Clear
        This key clear any previously defined argument string.

  F10+Sound+Text
        This key invokes the interactive text-to-speech mode.

  F10+Sound+Information or Ctrl-I
        Displays complete file information without playback, for the
        highlighted or marked file(s).  Requires SPUT.COM to be in a
        directory that is listed in your PATH statement.

  F10+Sound+Wave or Ctrl-W
        Views the highlighted or marked file(s) as a wave form using the
        SPUTWAVE utility.  Requires SPUTWAVE.EXE to be located in a
        directory that is listed in your PATH statement.

  F10+File+Copy or Ctrl-C
        Initiates the copy process for the highlighted or marked file(s),
        after prompting for a destination.  Wildcards ? and * are supported
        and renaming while copying is permitted.

        When a marked file is successfully copied, it's marker arrow is
        replaced by an asterisk.  If the target disk(ette) becomes
        filled, during a copy operation, SPUTTER automatically attempts
        to find other marked files that will fit, stopping when there are
        none.  Changing the target diskette, and hitting F1 again, will
        copy the remaining marked files.

  F10+File+Move or Ctrl-M
        Moves the highlighted or marked file(s), after prompting for a
        destination.  Wildcards ? and * are supported and renaming while
        moving is permitted.

        When a marked file is successfully moved, it's marker arrow is
        replaced by an asterisk.  If the target disk(ette) becomes
        filled, during a move operation, SPUTTER automatically attempts
        to find other marked files that will fit, stopping when there are
        none.  Changing the target diskette, and hitting F1 again, will
        move the remaining marked files.

  F10+File+Rename or Ctrl-R
        Renames the highlighted file, after prompting for a new filename.

  F10+File+Delete or Ctrl-D or Delete
        Deletes the highlighted or marked file(s), after prompting for
        verification.  Wildcards ? and * are supported.

  F10+File+View or Ctrl-V
        Views the highlighted or marked file(s).  Requires LIST.COM to
        be located in the PATH.

  F10+File+marK or Ctrl-K or F5
        Marks any files that were previously unmarked.

  F10+File+cLear or Ctrl-L or F6
        Clears marks on all files.

  F10+Options+Output or Ctrl-O or F8
        Enables or disables the option of seeing the output from the player
        utility during playback.  When a file is played with this option
        enabled, the center of the screen is cleared and the player utility
        output is displayed there.  Pressing this key a second time disables
        the option and it defaults to enabled.

  F10+Options+Pause or F7
        This toggles the state of the Pause-after-playback option.

  F10+Options+snoW
        This toggles the state of the Video-snow-suppression option.

  F10+Options+Verify
        This toggles the state of the Verify-after-copy option.

  F10+Options+Unsorted or Ctrl-U
        Displays the directory in it's original unsorted order.

  F10+Options+Name or Ctrl-N
        Sorts the directory list by filename.

  F10+Options+Extension or Ctrl-E
        Sorts the directory list by extension.

  F10+Options+Size or Ctrl-Z
        Sorts the directory list by file size.

  F10+Options+Date or Ctrl-T
        Sorts the directory list by date.

  F10+Help+Short
        Displays a help screen of short cut keys.

  F10+Help+Function
        Displays a help screen of function keys F1 thru F10.

  F10+Help+Navigation
        Displays a help screen of keys used for moving the highlight bar
        within the directory window.

  F10+Help+Player or Ctrl-S or F2
        Displays the SPUT help screen.  Requires SPUT.COM to be in a
        directory that is listed in your PATH statement.


  ***************************************************************************
                      SECTION 3.2 - SPUTMON Event Monitor
  ***************************************************************************

  This section describes the program named SPUTMON, which stands for (SPUT)ter
  Event (MON)itor.  SPUTMON is a small memory resident utility (under 6k)
  that lets you attach sound files to events that occur on your PC.

  Some of the types of events that SPUTMON can detect are as follows:

        BELL            replaces the system beep
        KEYBOARD        plays sounds when selected keys are pressed
        TIMER           date/time alarm
        PROGRAM         program execution
        FILE-OPEN       file open (read access)
        FILE-CREATE     file create (write access)
        FILE-RENAME     file rename
        FILE-DELETE     file delete
        INTERRUPT       interrupt 13 or 21

  When using SPUTMON the Event Monitor, it is recommended that you keep a
  copy of the player utilities SPUT.COM, SPUTROL.COM and SPUTCMF.COM on a RAM
  disk.  This will reduce system overhead associated with playback at the time
  the events occur.  If you are relying on Sputter to automatically load the
  FM sound drivers SOUND.COM and SBFMDRV.COM, then these should also be copied
  onto the RAM disk.


  -----------------------------------------
  3.2.1 SPUTMON COMMAND SYNTAX AND SWITCHES
  -----------------------------------------

  Typing 'SPUTMON ?' at the DOS prompt, will display the program version and
  an abbreviated help screen.

  To load the event monitor into memory type the following command at the
  DOS prompt:

                SPUTMON [<eventfile>] [/switches]

  <eventfile>
        This is the name of the event definition file.  If no filename is
        specified, the default of SPUTMON.DEF will be used.  If no directory
        is specified, the current directory is searched, and then the PATH.

  ?
        Entering a question mark on the command line, will tell SPUTMON
        to display a short help screen.

  /B
        This switch toggles the state of the bells-on-error & retry option
        and defaults to enabled.

        When this feature is enabled and SPUTMON is unable to play a file
        at the time an event occurs, a high-pitched bell will sound every 30
        seconds to alert you that what you are doing is preventing playback
        to occur.

        If the retry feature has been disabled with the /R switch, SPUTMON
        will play a low pitched buzzer to indicate that playback has been
        cancelled for that event only.

        Entering a number after the /B switch, will change the frequency of
        the error/retry bells from 30 seconds to the new value.  Setting
        the value to 0, disables all bells.

  /C
        This switch toggles the state of the command-line playback feature
        and defaults to enabled.  This method of playback is only used if
        DESQview is not running, or the /W window playback feature is
        disabled.

        When at the DOS prompt, you are actually running COMMAND.COM which
        allocates all of memory to itself.  If an event is triggered, there
        is no available memory for the player program to run or load the
        sound file.  This feature causes the player program to be run from
        the DOS prompt (although you won't actually see the command).

        If you are in the middle of typing a line when an event is triggered,
        SPUTMON will not interrupt you.  The playback will just be delayed
        until you enter a carriage return.

  /D
        This switch will disable event monitoring, and SPUTMON will
        remain in memory.

  /E
        This switch will reenable event monitoring.

  /F
        This switch toggles the state of the fast command-line playback
        feature and defaults to enabled.

        If you are idle at the DOS prompt when an event is triggered and
        the FAST feature is enabled, the selected sound file will be played
        immediately with no warning message or delay.

        If the FAST playback feature has been disabled, SPUTMON will print
        the following message on the screen:

  <SPUTMON is ready to play, press <CTRL-SHIFT> to cancel, <CTRL-ALT> to begin>

        then SPUTMON will wait approximately 5 seconds.  If you do nothing,
        or press <CTRL-ALT>, playback will occur.  If you press <CTRL-SHIFT>
        playback for that particular event only will be cancelled.

        In both cases, a new DOS prompt will appear, and you may continue
        as usual.

  /G
        This switch controls weather the DESQview player window will run
        in the foreground or background.  The default is background.

  /I
        This switch is used to reinitialize the event table.  All counters
        are reset to zero, and any events that were marked for playback
        are cancelled.

  /M
        This switch toggles the state of the multiple event triggering
        feature, and defaults to disabled.

        Normally, when an event occurs, SPUTMON searches the event table
        for a match.  If a match is found, the remainder of the table
        is not checked.  Enabling this feature, tells SPUTMON to check
        the entire table for additional matches.

        This switch normally will not affect type T timer events, since
        many clock interrupts will occur for each actual second of time.

        Example: If you have the following events defined in your event file

                P  DX.EXE  SHEESH.SND
                P  *       AHH.SND

        With /M disabled, running DX would only play SHEESH.SND.  With
        /M enabled, running DX would play SHEESH.SND and AHH.SND.

  /Q
        This switch toggles the quiet screen output feature, and defaults
        to enabled.

        Normally SPUTMON sends the appropriate switch to the player program
        to suppress screen output.  Disabling this feature will cause all
        screen output from the player program to be displayed.  This can
        be very useful while writing event definition files.

  /R
        This switch toggles the state of the retry playback feature and
        defaults to enabled.

        When an event occurs, and SPUTMON is unable to play the sound file,
        in the normal way, or using the /W (DV window) or /C (command line)
        methods, it looks at this switch to decide how to handle the event.

        If the retry feature is enabled, SPUTMON will remember that the
        file should be played, and will keep retrying playback until
        successful.  A short high pitched jingle will be heard every 30
        seconds to remind you that a playback is pending.

        If the retry feature is disabled, playback will be skipped for
        that particular event only, and you will hear a low pitched buzzer
        if the beep-on-error feature is enabled with /B.

  /S
        This switch prints the event table on the screen, which is a list
        of all events being monitored.

          TRIGG - is the number of times the event has triggered playback.
          ERROR - is the number of times playback has failed.
          CODE  - is the error code encountered during the last attempted
                  playback.  The first 2 digits are a number representing
                  the process that encountered the error.  A 10xx indicates
                  a player program error.  Any other number is the
                  number of the interrupt handler that encountered the error.
                  (ie: 2108 means playback was attempted by the INT21 handler
                  but failed because of insufficient memory).
          ST    - is the status of the event, with 01 meaning that the event
                  has been marked for playback.
          T     - is the type of file to be played where:
                  1 = Sound file for SPUT.COM  (blank or #S)
                  2 = ROL file for SPUTROL.COM (#R)
                  3 = Text file for SPUT.COM (#S)
                  4 = CMF file for SPUTCMF.COM (#C)
                  5 = DOS command or batch file for COMMAND.COM  (#D)

        INT AH AL Disp Trigg Error Code St T Filename     Arguments
        ---------------------------------------------------------------------
         29 FF 07 0C91 00000 00000 0000 00 1 e:\snd\spc\*.ani
         08 FF FF 0C98 00000 00000 0000 00 1 10-19-1990 13:15 255 *.tun
         08 FF FF 0C98 00000 00000 0000 00 1 10-19-1990 13:30 255 *.*
         08 FF FF 0C98 00000 00000 0000 00 1 10-19-1990 12:45 255 *.sfx
         08 FF FF 0C98 00000 00000 0000 00 1 10-19-1990 13:0 255 /ti/r145
         08 FF FF 0C98 00000 00000 0000 00 2 10-19-1990 12:45 255 *
         08 FF FF 0C98 00000 00000 0000 00 2 10-20-1990 12:0 1 bumblbee
         08 FF FF 0C98 00000 00000 0000 00 2 10-19-1990 17:0 1 airnite
         08 FF FF 0C98 00000 00000 0000 00 1 10-20-1990 0:0 1 bed1a
         08 FF FF 0C98 00000 00000 0000 00 1 10-20-1990 0:15 8 bed2a
         08 FF FF 0C98 00000 00000 0000 00 1 10-20-1990 2:0 30 timeup
         21 4B FF 0E07 00000 00000 0000 00 1 CP.EXE       certnly
         21 4B FF 0E07 00000 00000 0000 00 1 DC.EXE       sheesh
         21 4B FF 0E07 00000 00000 0000 00 1 DIRNOTES.COM exc2
         21 4B FF 0E07 00000 00000 0000 00 1 DX.EXE       notsfast
         21 4B FF 0E07 00000 00000 0000 00 1 FGREP.COM    gotit
         21 4B FF 0E07 00000 00000 0000 00 1 LINK.EXE     goodheav
         21 4B FF 0E07 00000 00000 0000 00 1 LIST.COM     heynot
         21 4B FF 0E07 00000 00000 0000 00 1 MAPMEM.EXE   theyrehe
         21 4B FF 0E07 00000 00000 0000 00 1 MASM.EXE     ridic
         21 4B FF 0E07 00000 00000 0000 00 1 MV.EXE       yeah
         21 4B FF 0E07 00000 00000 0000 00 1 NU.EXE       fearnot
         21 4B FF 0E07 00000 00000 0000 00 1 PKUNZIP.EXE  waitmin
         21 4B FF 0E07 00000 00000 0000 00 1 Q.EXE        mistaks
         21 4B FF 0E07 00000 00000 0000 00 1 QU.EXE       hereicom
         21 FF FF 0E53 00000 00000 0000 00 1 *            ahh

    Enabled Features  : MONITOR BELLS:30 RETRIES QUIET WINDOW/BG COMMAND FAST
    Disabled Features : MULTIPLES
    Date/Time: 10-19-1990 12:31:58.10 ■ Active Timers: 10

  /U
        This switch will cause SPUTMON to remove itself from memory.
        This can only be done successfully, if no other programs have
        become memory resident since SPUTMON was loaded.

  /W
        This switch toggles the state of the DESQview player window
        feature and defaults to enabled.

        This section is only applicable when DESQview is running.

        If this feature is enabled when an event occurs, a separate
        DESQview window will be started in which to run the player program.
        This window will run in the background, and close when playback is
        finished.  It will appear as a 2x2 character box in the upper left
        hand corner of the screen.

        All of the attributes of the DV player window can be changed by
        using the DESQview "Change A Program" utility to modify the DVP
        template file SP-PIF.DVP that comes with SPUTTER.  This DVP file
        must be located somewhere in the PATH, in order for SPUTMON to find
        it when becomming memory resident.

        Disabling this feature will cause playback to occur in the same
        window in which the event occurred.


  ------------------------------------------
  3.2.2 SPUTMON EVENT DEFINITION FILE FORMAT
  ------------------------------------------

  The event definition file is a simple ascii file, that can be modified
  with any text editor.  The maximum size of the file is limited to 64k
  bytes, including comments.

  Each line in the event file defines a single event.  The first "word" of
  each line, defines the event type and the remainder of the line describes
  the event to trigger on and the sound file to play when the event occurs.


  -------------------
  SPUTMON EVENT TYPES
  -------------------

        B <soundfile>

                This is the BEEP event, and will trigger playback of the
                specified soundfile in place of the normal speaker beep.

                Example: 'B CHICK.SND' plays a short clip of peeping chicks
                         instead of the normal speaker beep.

        K <scan-code> <shift-value> <soundfile>

                The KEYSTROKE event will trigger playback whenever the
                specified key combination is pressed.

                Example: 'K 3B,04 CERTNLY' plays CERTNLY whenever CTRL-F1
                         is struck.

        T <sdate> <stime> <idate> <itime> <repeat> <soundfile>

                The TIMER event will trigger playback whenever the set time
                <sdate><stime> occurs.  Then the repeat <repeat> is
                decremented, and the increment <idate><itime> is added to
                the set time to create the next alarm setting.

                Alarms and repeat counts are reset automatically.

        Examples:
                T 00-00-00 12:00 00-00-00 00:00 0 YEAH.TUN
                  at noon every day
                T 06-25-90 17:00 00-00-00 00:05 5 WOW.TUN
                  from 5:00pm to 5:25 every 5 minutes on 06-25-90
                T 07-11-90 00:00 00-00-00 00:01 0 wow.tun
                  every min for 1 day
                T 07-11-90 12:00 00-01-00 00:00 2 wow.tun
                  at noon for 2 days
                T 07-00-00 12:00 00-01-00 00:00 0 wow.tun
                  at noon every day in July
                T 00-11-00 12:00 01-00-00 00:00 0 wow.tun
                  at noon on the 11th of every month
                T 07-00-90 00:00 00-00-00 01:00 0 wow.tun
                  every hour in July
                T 00-11-00 00:00 00-00-00 01:00 0 wow.tun
                  every hour on every 11th day

        P  <progname> <soundfile>
                The PROGRAM execution event will trigger playback whenever
                the specified program is run.  The program name follows the
                same rules for filenames.

                Example: 'P Q.EXE MISTAKS.V8' plays Stooge Moe saying "Now
                         don't make any more mistakes!" when Qedit is run.
                     or: 'P LIST.COM DOC.TUN' plays Bugs Bunny saying "Whats
                         up Doc?" whenever LIST is used to view a file.

        FO <filename> <soundfile>
                The FILE-OPEN event will trigger playback whenever the
                specified file is opened in read-only mode.

                Example: 'FO * CERTNLY.V8' plays Stooge Curly saying
                         "Certainly!" when any file is opened for reading.

        FC <filename> <soundfile>
                The FILE-CREATE event will trigger playback whenever the
                specified file is opened for write access.  The DOS COPY
                command will not trigger this event because of insufficient
                memory.

                Example: 'FC CONFIG.SYS HEYNOT.V8' plays Stooge Curly saying
                         "Hey not that!" when any program attemps to open
                          CONFIG.SYS for write access.

        FR <filename> <soundfile>
                The FILE-RENAME event will trigger playback whenever the
                specified file is renamed.  The DOS REName command will not
                trigger this event.

                Example: 'FR AUTOEXEC.BAT MEANING.TUN" plays Bugs Bunny
                         saying "Whats the meaning of this?" when any program
                         attempts to rename AUTOEXEC.BAT.

        FD <filename> <soundfile>
                The FILE-DELETE event will trigger playback whenever the
                specified file is deleted.  The DOS DELete command will not
                trigger this event.

                Example: 'FD * AHH.TUN' plays Yosemite Sam yelling "Ahhhhh"
                         whenever any file is deleted by any program.


        The following events are called the INT events.  They are more
        complex to setup than the above events, but are much more powerful.
        As a reference, I highly recommend "The Interrupt List" by
        Ralf Brown.  It is available on most BBS's as INTERnnn.ZIP where
        'nnn' is the latest version number.


        I  <int> <ah> <al> <soundfile>
                The vanilla INT event will trigger playback whenever the
                specified interrupt <int> occurs, with <ah> matching the AH
                register and <al> matching the AL register.

                Example:  'I 21 4C FF THATS.TUN' plays Bugs Bunny saying
                          "That's that" whenever a program terminates.

        IA <int> <ah> <al> <filename> <soundfile>
                The INT-ASCIZ event will trigger playback whenever the
                specified interrupt <int> occurs, with <ah> matching the AH
                register and <al> matching the AL register.  An additional
                check is done between <filename> and the filename pointed
                to by the DS:DX register.

                Example:  'IA 21 43 01 MYFILE CERTNLY.V8' plays Stooge Curly
                          saying "Certainly!" whenever the file attributes of
                          the file named MYFILE are set.

        IF <int> <ah> <al> <filename> <soundfile>
                The INT-FCB event will trigger playback whenever the
                specified interrupt <int> occurs, with <ah> matching the AH
                register and <al> matching the AL register.  An additional
                check is done between <filename> and the filename in the
                File-Control-Block pointed to by the DS:DX register.

                Example:  'IF 21 15 FF MYFILE HEYNOT.V8' plays Stooge Curly
                          saying "Hey, not that!" whenever a sequential
                          write is done to the file MYFILE.

        ID <int> <ah> <al> <drive> <soundfile>
                The INT-DISK event will trigger playback whenever the
                specified interrupt <int> occurs, with <ah> matching the
                AH register and <al> matching the AL register.  An additional
                check is done between <drive> and the DL register.

                Example:  'ID 13 05 ff 01 WARNING.V8' plays the Robot from Lost
                          in Space saying "Warning Warning" anytime a format
                          disk track is executed on the A drive.


  ------------------------
  SPUTMON EVENT PARAMETERS
  ------------------------

  The event type is followed by additional parameters that describe the event
  on which to trigger playback.

  Parameters may be separated by commas or any number of spaces.  They may
  appear in upper or lower case.

  The parameters used are different for each event type.  All are described
  below:

  <filename>
        A filename that may be up to 12 characters in length, and must
        include a period and extension.  It may be a single * to indicate
        a match of any filename.

  <soundfile>
        The name of the soundfile to be played at the time the event occurs.
        It may include a full path specification and any valid player
        switches.  If the sound file will be played using SPUT, you may
        also use *.* to invoke random soundfile selection.

  <scan-code>
        The scan-code is the hexadecimal number of the key that will trigger
        a sound file when pressed:

 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | esc   01  |   t T     14  |   ; :     27  |   F1      3B  |   Gray +  4E  |
 | 1 !   02  |   y Y     15  |   ' "     28  |   F2      3C  |   1 End   4F  |
 | 2 @   03  |   u U     16  |   ` ~     29  |   F3      3D  |   2 Down  50  |
 | 3 #   04  |   i I     17  |   l-shf   2A  |   F4      3E  |   3 PgDn  51  |
 | 4 $   05  |   o O     18  |   \ |     2B  |   F5      3F  |   0 Ins   52  |
 | 5 %   06  |   p P     19  |   z Z     2C  |   F6      40  |   . Del   53  |
 | 6 ^   07  |   [ {     1A  |   x X     2D  |   F7      41  |               |
 | 7 &   08  |   ] }     1B  |   c C     2E  |   F8      42  |   Gray *  37  |
 | 8 *   09  |   enter   1C  |   v V     2F  |   F9      43  |   F11     57  |
 | 9 (   0A  |   l-ctl   1D  |   b B     30  |   F10     44  |   F12     58  |
 | 0 )   0B  |   a A     1E  |   n N     31  |   Num     45  |   Break   E1  |
 | - _   0C  |   s S     1F  |   m M     32  |   Scroll  46  |               |
 | = +   0D  |   d D     20  |   , <     33  |   7 Home  47  |               |
 | bksp  0E  |   f F     21  |   . >     34  |   8 Up    48  |               |
 | tab   0F  |   g G     22  |   r-shf   36  |   9 PgUp  49  |               |
 | q Q   10  |   h H     23  |   prtscr  37  |   Gray-   4A  |               |
 | w W   11  |   j J     24  |   l-alt   38  |   4 Left  4B  |               |
 | e E   12  |   k K     25  |   space   39  |   5       4C  |               |
 | r R   13  |   l L     26  |   caps    3A  |   6 Right 4D  |               |
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

  <shift-value>
        The shift value is a number that represents a combination of shift
        keys to be pressed at the same time as the action key.

                01  Right shift key
                02  Left shift key
                04  Ctrl key
                08  Alt key
                10  Right or left shift keys

        To use multiple shift keys, add the values (eg: 06 = Ctrl and Alt keys)

  <int>
        This is the interrupt number in hexadecimal to monitor.
        Only interrupts 13 and 21 are supported at this time.

  <ah>
        This is the hexadecimal contents of the AH register to be
        checked at the time of the interrupt.  Use FF to indicate
        a match on all values.

  <al>
        This is the hexadecimal contents of the AL register to be
        checked at the time of the interrupt.  Use FF to indicate
        a match on all values.

  <drive>
        This is the hexadecimal driver number, with 0 being the
        A drive, and 1 the B drive.  Use FF to indicate a match on
        any drive.

  <sdate>
        This is the first date that the alarm should trigger in the
        format MM-DD-YY.  00 in any field, matches every value.
        06-00-90 means every day in June 1990.

  <stime>
        This is the first time that the alarm should trigger in the
        format HH:MM. 00:00 means midnight.

  <idate>
        This is the increment to add to <sdate> to determine the
        next date that the alarm should trigger.  The format is
        MM-DD-YY.  01-00-00 means add 1 to the month for the next
        alarm date.  00-00-01 means add 1 to the year.

  <itime>
        This is the increment to add to <stime> to determine the
        next time that the alarm should trigger.  The format is
        HH:MM.  00:05 means 5 minutes later.  01:00 means 1 hour
        later.

  <repeat>
        This is the number of times to add the increment to the
        set time and reset the alarm.  A value of 0 means non-stop.


  -----------------------------------------------
  3.2.3 PLAYING .ROL FILES FROM THE EVENT MONITOR
  -----------------------------------------------

  To use SPUTROL to play a ROL file when an event occurs, just insert '#R'
  before the <soundfile> argument.

        Example:  'P MYPROG.EXE #R LINUS.ROL'
             or:  'T 00-00-00 12:00 00-00-00 00:00 1 #R LINUS.ROL'

        SPUTROL.COM will be used to play LINUS.ROL whenever MYPROG.EXE is
        executed, and every day at 12:00 noon.

  This does not require that the sound driver SOUND.COM already be loaded,
  SPUTROL can automatically load SOUND.COM and unload it when playback is
  completed thereby saving valuable memory.  If you plan to use this feature,
  it is recommended that you keep SOUND.COM on a RAMdisk for quicker access.

        SOUND.COM v1.51 is Copyright by Ad Lib Inc.


  -----------------------------------------------
  3.2.4 PLAYING .CMF FILES FROM THE EVENT MONITOR
  -----------------------------------------------

  To use SPUTCMF to play a CMF file when an event occurs, just insert '#C'
  before the <soundfile> argument.

        Example:  'P MYPROG.EXE #C LINUS.ROL'
             or:  'T 00-00-00 12:00 00-00-00 00:00 1 #C LINUS.ROL'

        SPUTCMF.COM will be used to play LINUS.ROL whenever MYPROG.EXE is
        executed, and every day at 12:00 noon.

  This does not require that the sound driver SBFMDRV.COM already be loaded,
  SPUTCMF can automatically load SBFMDRV.COM and unload it when playback is
  completed thereby saving valuable memory.  If you plan to use this feature,
  it is recommended that you keep SBFMDRV.COM on a RAMdisk for quicker access.

        SBFMDRV.COM v1.21 is Copyright by Creative Labs


  -----------------------------------------------------------------
  3.2.5 EXECUTING DOS COMMANDS & BATCH FILES FROM THE EVENT MONITOR
  -----------------------------------------------------------------

  The Event Monitor also has the ability to start any DOS command, program
  or batch file when an event occurs.

  To use this feature, just preceed the <soundfile> argument with '#D'.

        Example:  'FD DEMO.TMP #D TEST.BAT'
                  runs TEST.BAT whenever the file DEMO.TMP is deleted.


  -------------------------------------------------------------
  3.2.6 EXECUTING SMOOTH TALKER SOFTWARE FROM THE EVENT MONITOR
  -------------------------------------------------------------

  Smooth Talker software does not come with The Sputter Sound System.  It
  is copyright by First Byte Software and licensed by a number of different
  companies to be packaged with their hardware.

  Smooth Talker is available from Covox with the Speech Thing as a driver
  called STDRIVER.SYS and two memory-resident programs called SPEECHV3.EXE
  and SPEECHV2.EXE (for slower machines).

  To use the Smooth Talker device driver from Covox, you must add the following
  line to your CONFIG.SYS file and reboot your system:

         'DEVICE=STDRIVER.SYS SV3 CRE TTD'

  Then load SPEECHV3, or SPEECHV2 for slower systems with the following
  command:

                SPEECHV3 <enter>
        or      SPEECHV2 <enter>        for slower machines

  Now add a line to the event definition file, to define the event that you
  want to trigger the playback of synthesized speech.  This event line can
  be any of the possible event types B,K,T,P,FO,FC,FR,FD as in the following
  example:

                FD DEMO.TMP #D COPY MESSAGE.TXT ST

  This example will cause Smooth Talker to convert the text file MESSAGE.TXT
  to synthesized speech whenever the file DEMO.TMP is deleted.

  If your STDRIVER is also used by other software supporting Smooth Talker
  and gets set into a different mode so that the COPY command no longer works,
  you can use the SPUTST utility to reset it without having to reboot your
  system.  Just type the following command at the DOS prompt:

        'SPUTST SV3 CRE TTD'

                       ----------------------------

  Smooth Talker is also available from Creative Labs for the Sound Blaster
  as an executable program called TALK.EXE.

  Just add a line to the event definition file, to define the event that you
  want to trigger the playback of synthesized speech.  This event line can
  be any of the possible event types B,K,T,P,FO,FC,FR,FD,I as in the following
  example:

                FD DEMO.TMP #D TALK MESSAGE.TXT

  This example will cause Smooth Talker to convert the text file MESSAGE.TXT
  to synthesized speech whenever the file DEMO.TMP is deleted.


  SmoothTalker is Copyright by First Byte Software.


  -------------------------------------------
  3.2.7 USING THE EVENT MONITOR WITH DESQVIEW
  -------------------------------------------

  SPUTMON can be run in any DESQview window, and will only see events that
  occur in the same window.  Separate event definition files can be created
  for each application that runs in a DESQview window, or all windows can
  use the same event definition file.

  All timer events should be monitored from a single DESQview window.

  If the DESQview player window feature of SPUTMON is enabled (/W), a
  separate window will be started in which to run the player.  This window
  will run in the background, and close when the player exits.

  If the player program runs too slowly in a background window, there are
  a number of options that you can try:

  1) You can use the SPUTMON /G switch to make the player window run in the
     foreground instead of in the background.

  2) You can try changing your foreground/background ticks, in the DESQview
     advanced setup for performance.

  3) You can use the SPUTMON /W switch to disable the window-player feature.
     This will cause playback to occur in the same window that the event
     occured, and should then be at the correct playback speed.

  Currently, SPUTMON does not run properly when loaded before DESQview, and
  this will eventually be resolved.


  ----------------------------
  3.2.8 SPUTMON ERROR MESSAGES
  ----------------------------

  Event Monitor is not installed
  Cannot uninstall the Event Monitor; another program was loaded after it
  Event Monitor has been uninstalled
  Event Monitor is already Installed
  Event Monitor installed and active
  Event table initialized
  Event Monitoring enabled
  Event Monitoring disabled
  Bells on error & retry enabled
  Bells on error & retry disabled
  Bells frequency changed to every N seconds
  Retry playback enabled
  Retry playback disabled
  Quiet screen enabled
  Quiet screen disabled
  Multiple triggers enabled
  Multiple triggers disabled
  DESQview player window enabled
  DESQview player window disabled
  Command line playback enabled
  Command line playback disabled
  Background window enabled
  Foreground window enabled
  Invalid Filespec
  Failed to find SPUT.COM in current path
  Failed to find Event file
  Event file read error
  No events found
  Syntax error - on line n of Event Definition File
  Invalid hexadecimal number - on line n of Event Definition File
  Invalid decimal number - on line n of Event Definition File
  Invalid event definition type - on line n of Event Definition File
  Invalid program or filename - on line n of Event Definition File
  Invalid soundfile argument - on line n of Event Definition File
  Invalid date/time format - on line n of Event Definition File
  Invalid date/time increment - on line n of Event Definition File
  DVP file not found - DESQview player window disabled
  DVP file read error
  COMSPEC variable not found, defaulting to COMMAND.COM
  Event File being loaded : ..................


  -----------------------------------------------------
  3.2.9 TROUBLE SHOOTING PROBLEMS WITH EVENT TRIGGERING
  -----------------------------------------------------

  ** No playback occurs at the defined event

  If playback does not occur when you expect it should, try the following
  steps to isolate the problem:

        1)  Enable the bell-on-error option with the command 'SPUTMON/B'.
            (You can check the state of the switch with SPUTMON/S)
        2)  Reinitialize the event table counters with the command 'SPUTMON/I'
        2)  Perform the same sequence of commands that should cause
            playback to occur.
        3)  Display a status with the command 'SPUTMON/S' and make a note
            of the CODE field.  This is the error code.
        4)  Continue reading to find the problem.


  ** Hear a buzzer instead of playback and Error Code = xx02

  An error code of xx02 indicates that SPUTMON could not run the player
  utility.  When SPUTMON is initially loaded, it searches the current
  PATH found in the environment, to find all of the player utilities.
  If these files are later moved or deleted, SPUTMON will no longer be able
  to call upon them to play soundfiles.

  To resolve this problem, replace the player program that was moved
  or deleted, or unload and reload SPUTMON.

  The player programs referenced by SPUTMON are SPUT.COM, SPUTROL.COM,
  SPUTCMF.COM, COMMAND.COM and 4DOS.COM.


  ** Hear a buzzer instead of playback and Error Code = xx08

  An error code of xx08 indicates insufficient memory.  This means that
  the currently running program already has all of available memory
  allocated to it, and there is not enough remaining memory to run the
  player utility.

  This error will only occur if you have disabled the DESQview-player-
  window feature (/W) and the command-line-playback feature (/C) and
  the retry feature (/R).  Reenabling any of these features will solve
  this problem.

  If you choose not to enable these features, an alternative solution
  is to use the PROGRAM execution event to trigger playback when the
  offending program is run, instead of triggering on what the program
  is doing.  Other than this, nothing else can be done to solve this
  problem, unless you have access to the source code of the offending
  program.


  ** Buzzer instead of playback and Error Code = 10xx

  An error code of 10xx indicates that SPUTMON ran the player utility, but
  the player encountered an error.  Refer to the section on the SPUT utility
  for a list of SPUT error numbers and messages.

  Normally, SPUTMON runs the player utility with the proper switches so
  there will be no screen output while other programs are running.
  Disabling this feature with the /Q switch, will allow the player to
  display all it's normal screen output, including error messages.


  ** No playback when event is caused by any of the SPUTTER utilities

  This has been done intentionally, otherwise invoking any of the SPUTTER
  utilities causes multiple soundfiles to be played.  Enough is enough I say.
  All SPUTTER utilities issue a special command to SPUTMON to temporarily
  disable triggering of events caused by the SPUTTER utilities.
  Triggering and playback of type T timer events will continue uninterrupted.


  ** Here is a list of other possible error codes that can be returned from
     DOS when attempting to execute the Player Utility SPUT:

        01h function number invalid
        02h file not found
        03h path not found
        04h too many open files (no handles available)
        05h access denied
        06h invalid handle
        07h memory control block destroyed
        08h insufficient memory
        09h memory block address invalid
        0Ah environment invalid (usually >32K in length)
        0Bh format invalid
        0Ch access code invalid
        0Dh data invalid
        0Fh invalid drive
        10h attempted to remove current directory
        11h not same device
        12h no more files
        13h disk write-protected
        14h unknown unit
        15h drive not ready
        16h unknown command
        17h data error (CRC)
        18h bad request structure length
        19h seek error
        1Ah unknwon media type (non-DOS disk)
        1Bh sector not found
        1Ch printer out of paper
        1Dh write fault
        1Eh read fault
        1Fh general failure
        20h sharing violation
        21h lock violation
        22h disk change invalid
        23h FCB unavailable
        24h sharing buffer overflow
        25h reserved
        26h (LANtastic) cannot complete file operation
        27h-31h reserved
        32h Network request not supported (DOS 3.1 + MS Networks)
        33h Remote computer not listening
        34h Duplicate name on network
        35h Network name not found
        36h Network busy
        37h Network device no longer exists
        38h Network BIOS command limit exceeded
        39h Network adapter hardware error
        3Ah Incorrect response from network
        3Bh Unexpected network error
        3Ch Incompatible remote adapter
        3Dh Print queue full
        3Eh Queue not full
        3Fh Not enough space to print file
        40h Network name was deleted
        41h Network: Access denied
        42h Network device type incorrect
        43h Network name not found
        44h Network name limit exceeded
        45h Network BIOS session limit exceeded
        46h Temporarily paused
        47h Network request not accepted
        48h (DOS 3.1 + MS Networks) Print/disk redirection paused
        49h (LANtastic) invalid network version
        4Ah (LANtastic) account expired
        4Bh (LANtastic) password expired
        4Ch (LANtastic) login attempt invalid at this time
        4Dh-4Fh reserved
        50h file exists
        51h reserved
        52h cannot make directory
        53h fail on INT 24h
        54h (DOS 3.3+) too many redirections
        55h (DOS 3.3+) duplicate redirection
        56h (DOS 3.3+) invalid password
        57h (DOS 3.3+) invalid parameter
        58h (DOS 3.3+) network write fault
        59h (LANtastic) function not supported on network
        5Ah (LANtastic) required system component not installed


  **************************************************************************
                 SECTION 3.3 - SPUT Soundfile Player UTility
  **************************************************************************

  This section describes the digitized sound file player named SPUT.

  --------------------------------------
  3.3.1 SPUT COMMAND SYNTAX AND SWITCHES
  --------------------------------------

  Typing 'SPUT' with no arguments at the DOS prompt, will print the current
  version number and a short help screen.

  The command syntax for SPUT is as follows:

                SPUT <soundfile> [/switches]

  <soundfile>
        This is the name of the sound file to be played.  Any valid DOS
        wildcards may be used to have SPUT randomly select a sound file.
        The extension is not required, and sound files may be renamed
        using any convenient extension.

        If no path is specified, the directory specified by the SPUTDIR
        environment variable will be assumed, otherwise the current
        directory is assumed.

        Specifying a directory as part of the filename, will override
        any directory specified by the SPUTDIR environment variable.  Use
        ".\filename" to indicate the current directory and ignore the
        SPUTDIR environment variable.

  ?
        Entering a question mark on the command line, will tell SPUT to
        display a short help screen.

  /An
        This switch will enhance the amplitude, or volume, of a soundfile.
        Using this switch, causes more processing to be performed on each
        sample of the soundfile, and may actually slow down the playback
        speed on slower processors.  The higher the N value, the more
        processing being done on each sample.

        If using this switch, slows the playback speed on your system,
        you can use the /A switch in conjunction with the /W switch to
        write the file to disk.  The new file will play properly with
        no switches, and the amplitude will be elevated.

        Another alternative is to resample the file to a lower playback
        rate using the /U and /W switches.  Then you can replay the new
        file using the /A switch without bogging down your system.

  /Cn
        This will cause the selected file to be played N times, in a
        continous loop.  A value of 0 will play indefinetly, until a
        key is struck.  This is most useful for listening to the quality
        of a very short sound clip, or can be used as an alarm
        triggered SPUTMON the Event Monitor.

  /Dn
        This switch is used to select the method of output to be used
        on the currently selected output device.

        The Internal Speaker has 4 drivers, the default is #1.

          1 - This method uses a software timing loop to drive the
              8253 Programmable Interval Timer chip.  The routine
              calibrates itself by polling the Timer chip while
              outputting the first 64 bytes of the file.
              This driver gives the best results, since no additional
              background noise is caused by interrupts or sampling.
              It will not cause crashes on slower systems, but it's
              speed is slightly less accurate than the other methods.

          2 - This method polls the Timer chip while outputting the
              sound file.  It's speed is accurate, and like method 1
              will not cause crashes on slower systems, but it generates
              slightly more noise than method 3 (interrupts).

          3 - This method uses Timer interrupts to output the sound file.
              It's speed is accurate, it generates slightly more noise
              than method 1 (software timing), but it may crash slower
              systems when using too fast a speed or oversampling factor.
              When this method is used in DESQview, the keyboard is
              automatically disabled to prevent crashing the system.

          4 - This method uses the 8255 Peripheral Interface Controller
              to generate sound.  It's speed is accurate, but the sound
              quality is appreciably lower than the other methods, since
              only a single bit of each 8-bit sample is actually output.

        The Sound Blaster has 2 drivers, the default is #2.

              SPUT will automatically select the correct Sound Blaster
              driver depending on the environment it is running in, and
              the file format that is being played.

          1 - This driver uses the direct mode of output to the Sound
              Blaster DAC port.  This is completely CPU driven and can
              be interrupted by background processing in a multitasking
              environment.

              This driver has the capability of sending ANY file format
              from any other source to the Sound Blaster card, but does
              NOT support formats 42,44,45.

          2 - This driver uses the DMA mode of the Sound Blaster DAC port.
              and can also be used in a multitasking environment.

              This driver can handle formats 42,44,45,48 and any other 8-bit
              file format (08,28,38), and provides the /SHELL function,
              but does NOT support any of the other compressed file formats
              (01-04,11,21,31,81-84).

  /DE
        Normally SPUT assumes that other processes already running, are
        more important than sound playback, so if other tasks are running
        when SPUT attempts to play a file, playback may be slightly slower
        than expected.  This is done mainly to not disrupt any communications
        tasks that might be running when SPUT is started.

        You may use /DE to force SPUT to run in dedicated mode and pause all
        other tasks in order to play the soundfile correctly.

  /DI
        This switch is used to specify an alternate dictionary file.  The
        default dictionary filename is SPUT.DIC.  The file is assumed to be
        located in the current directory or in the PATH.
        This file is used during text-to-speech translation and contains
        any pronounciation corrections or user definitions.
        See the next section for a description of this file.

  /Fnn
        The /F switch is used to force SPUT to use a specific file
        format.  This may be necessary when the file is missing a
        proper header record, which SPUT needs to determine the
        file format automatically.

        If you play a file with no switches, and it does not playback
        correctly, try using all possible /F switches until the file
        plays correctly.  If SPUT still fails to playback the file
        with any of the /F switches, you may have a file format that
        SPUT doesn't know about.

        SPUT has the capability of playing ANY digitized sound file
        on ANY device that it supports, not just the device on which the
        file was created.  The only exception to this are formats
        42,44,45 which can only be played on a Sound Blaster card.

        If you find a file format that SPUT doesn't understand, please
        send me a copy of the file and any others similar to it, so that
        I can try to decipher the format and add it to a future release
        of SPUTTER.

        File formats:

        01 - Covox 1-bit ADPCM with 16-byte header (.V1)

             Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation is a technique
             of encoding the original waveform into a smaller file.
             This format uses a series of 16 byte groups with the first
             byte being an amplitude byte and the remaining 15 bytes
             are data.  Each data byte contains 8 1-bit samples.  Each
             of these 16-byte groups decodes into 120 8-bit samples.
             This format yields a 1:8 or 1/8 compression ratio.

        02 - Covox 2-bit ADPCM with 16-byte header (.V2)

             This format uses a series of 2 byte groups where 1 bit of
             each of the two bytes is combined to form a 2-bit sample.
             Each two byte group contains 8 of these 2-bit samples.
             The 2-bit samples are then decoded into 8-bit samples before
             playback.  This format yields a 2:8 or 1/4 compression ratio.

        03 - Covox 3-bit ADPCM with 16-byte header (.V3)

             This format uses a series of 3 byte groups where 1 bit of
             each of the three bytes is combined to form a 3-bit sample.
             Each three byte group contains 8 of these 3-bit samples.
             The 3-bit samples are then decoded into 8-bit samples before
             playback.  This format yields a 3:8 or 3/8 compression ratio.

        04 - Covox 4-bit ADPCM with 16-byte header (.V4)

             This format uses a series of 4 byte groups where 1 bit of
             each of the four bytes is combined to form a 4-bit sample.
             Each four byte group contains 8 of these 4-bit samples.
             The 4-bit samples are then decoded into 8-bit samples before
             playback.  This format yields a 4:8 or 1/2 compression ratio.

        08 - Covox 8-bit PCM with 16-byte header (.V8)
             or Covox 8-bit PCM with 128-byte header (.VMF)
             or Covox 8-bit PCM with no header (.VMD)
             or any other 8-bit PCM file

             Uniform Pulse Code Modulation stores a waveform as a
             sequence of 8-bit samples representing different amplitudes.
             The lowest sample is 0, the midpoint is 128 and the highest
             sample is 255.

             Programs that use this format:
             .  Voice Master Key software by Covox
             .  Deskmate Software by Tandy for 1000SL/TL/2s computers.
             .  Tandy Sound Digitizer by KSH Software.

        09 - 12-bit signed PCM

             This format uses 12-bit signed integers, each stored in a 16-bit
             word.  The lowest sample is -4095, the midpoint is 0 and the
             highest sample is 4095.

        0A - Turtle Beach Softworks 16-bit signed PCM (.SMP)

             This format uses 16-bit signed integers to represent the data.
             The format is similar to 8-bit PCM, but stores the actual
             amplitude level with polarity intact.  The lowest sample is
             -32767, the mid point is 0 and the highest sample is 32767.

        10 - Text files

             Any text file to be translated into speech.

        11 - IBM 1-bit CVSD format files

             Continously Variable Slope Delta Modulation records the
             direction of the waveform bit by bit.  If the wave goes up
             from the previous sample, a "1" bit is recorded otherwise
             a "0" bit is recorded.  Absolute silence is recorded as
             "01010101...".  The bit stream is stored from right to
             left in each data byte.
             This format yields a 1:8 or 1/8 compression ratio.

             Programs that use this format:
             .  IBM's education software such as "Writing to Read"
                with a 128-byte header.
             .  Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia program on CD ROM.

        21 - Digicorder 1-bit CVSD format files

             This format is similar to format 11, except that the bit
             stream is stored from left to right within each data byte.
             This format yields a 1:8 or 1/8 compression ratio.

             Programs that use this format:
             .  Digicorder & Mimic by Eletech Electronics with a numeric
                extension indicating the recording rate in bits-per-second,
                and no header record.

        28 - Amiga 8-bit PCM with 8SVX variable length header (.SND)
             or Amiga 8-bit PCM with Sonix 64-byte header (.SND)
             or Atari 8-bit PCM files (.SND)

             This format is similar to 8-bit PCM, but stores the actual
             amplitude level with polarity intact.  The lowest sample is
             -128, the mid point is 0 and the highest sample is 128.

             Programs that use this format:
             .  Perfect Sound by Sunrize Industries for the Amiga
                with a 128-byte 8SVX style header record.
             .  Audio Master for the Amiga, with a 128-byte 8SVX header.
             .  Sonix for the Amiga, with a 64-byte header record.

        31 - Voice Toolkit 1-bit format files

             This format simply takes bit-4 of each original 8-bit sample
             and stores the bit stream from left to right within each
             data byte.
             This format yields a 1:8 or 1/8 compression ratio.

             Programs that use this format:
             .  Digitized Voice Toolkit for the PC, by Farpoint
                Software; Alan D. Jones, with a .VOI extension.
                NOTE: This shareware package includes the schematics
                for a build-it-yourself digitizer that is attached to
                any COM port for recording.

        38 - Macintosh 8-bit PCM with MacBinary FSSD 128-byte header (.SND)

             This file format is the same as format 08, with a different
             type of header record.  No compression is currently supported.

        42 - Creative Labs 2-bit ADPCM with 16-byte header (.VOC)

             This is a compressed file format, that is automatically
             decompressed by the hardware, and can only be played
             on a Sound Blaster card.

        44 - Creative Labs 4-bit ADPCM with 16-byte header (.VOC)

             This is a compressed file format, that is automatically
             decompressed by the hardware, and can only be played
             on a Sound Blaster card.

        45 - Creative Labs 2.5-bit ADPCM with 16-byte header (.VOC)

             This is a compressed file format, that is automatically
             decompressed by the hardware, and can only be played
             on a Sound Blaster card.

        48 - Creative Labs 8-bit PCM with 16-byte header (.VOC)

             This format is the same as format 08, with a different type
             of header record, and can be played on any device.

             This format is used by the Sound Blaster card from Creative
             Labs Inc.

        81 - Covox 1-bit ADPCM with silence encoding (.V1S)

             This format is the same as format 01, but includes the use
             of silence encoding.

             Silence encoding is a form of compression that uses 3 bytes
             to represent up to 32640 multiple continous bytes of silence.
             This technique can save a considerable amount of disk space
             without affecting the sound quality.  Many periods of silence
             occur between words and syllables and at the beginning and end
             of sound files.

             DEMO123.V8S is an example of a silence encoded file.  You can
             play it back with no switches for normal playback, or you can
             use the /F8 switch to hear just the non-silent passages.  The
             little cracks you'll hear with the /F8 switch are the places
             where silence has been encoded into just a few bytes.

             Currently, only sound files created by Covox programs have
             silence encoding, but a future release of SPUTTER, will include
             a utility to rewrite any sound files using silence encoding.

        82 - Covox 2-bit ADPCM with silence encoding (.V2S)

             This format is the same as format 02, but includes the use
             of silence encoding.

        83 - Covox 3-bit ADPCM with silence encoding (.V3S)

             This format is the same as format 03, but includes the use
             of silence encoding.

        84 - Covox 4-bit ADPCM with silence encoding (.V4S)

             This format is the same as format 04, but includes the use
             of silence encoding.

        88 - Covox 8-bit PCM with silence encoding (.V8S)

             This format is the same as format 08, but includes the use
             of silence encoding.

  /Hi,r
        This switch will cause high-pass filtering to be applied to the
        data before being played.  This technique is known as Differential
        Quantization & is based on the fact that there is considerable
        correlation between adjacent speech samples.  The interval <i>,
        determines the distance between samples to be differentiated.
        Using a repeat value <r> greater than 1 will heighten the effect.

        This switch can only be used on 8-bit PCM data with no compression
        or silence encoding.  Using the switch with any other file format
        will produce an error message.  To apply high-pass filtering to
        any other file format, you must first use the /W switch to write
        the desired file out into 8-bit PCM format, and then use the /H
        switch on the new file.

  /I
        This switch will display on screen, all the file information that
        is normally displayed when the file is played, but without any
        playback occurring.

  /IRn
        This switch allows you to specify the Interrupt Request line that
        your Sound Blaster card is set for.  The default is 3, with valid
        values being 2,3,5,7.

  /K
        This switch will cause SPUT to ignore all keyboard input while
        playing a soundfile.

  /Li,r
        This switch will cause low-pass filtering to be applied to the
        data before being played.  This technique is known as Integration.
        The interval <i> determines the distance between samples to be
        integrated.  Using a repeat value <r> greater than 1 will heighten
        the effect.

        This switch can only be used on 8-bit PCM data with no compression
        or silence encoding.  See /H for directions on applying low-pass
        filtering to other file formats.

  /N
        This switch will generate very low-level noise in place of dead
        silence, when playing back files with silence encoding.
        Sometimes, when periods of silence are obvious, this can help
        make it more natural sounding.

  /On
        The /O switch is used to invoke the oversampling option for the
        internal speaker only.  This can be used to help eliminate
        sampling whine in files that were recorded at a sampling rate
        below 12000 samples-per-second.

        When the /O switch is used alone, or before the /R switch on
        the command line, SPUT will use the specified playback rate to
        calculate a new playback rate to be used while oversampling.

        For example, if a file plays correctly at a rate of 132 (9622hz)
        but yields high sampling whine, using the /O2/R132 switches will
        cause SPUT to double the playback rate from 9622hz to 19244hz
        and oversample by a factor of 2.  This causes the file to be played
        back twice as fast, but each byte is being played twice now, so
        it sounds the same with the sampling whine removed.

        The switch is ignored, when sending output to any port other
        than the internal speaker.

  /Pnnn
        This switch allows selection of the desired output port.

        Port Values:

            0     - Internal speaker (default)
            1-4   - Voice Master (VM0-3)
            5-8   - Speech Thing (LPT1-4)
            9     - Sound Master (SM)
            nnn   - hex port address of any other Digital to Analog Converter
            nnn-A - hex port address of an AdLib music card
            nnn-S - hex port address of a Sound Blaster card

  /PH
        This switch will cause SPUT to display the phonemes used to
        form words during text-to-speech translation.

  /Qn
        This switch is used to set the desired level of screen output.
                /Q0     display all output
                /Q1     display none
                /Q2     display errors only

  /Rnnn
        The /R switch is used to force SPUT to use a specific playback
        rate.  This may be necessary when the file is missing a proper
        header record, or the playback or record rate is not available.

        When the playback rate is not available, it will default to
        152 for Macintosh files and 182 for all other files.

        When the /R switch appears before the /O switch on the command
        line, SPUT will use the specified playback rate for oversampling
        and not perform any other calculation.

        When the /O switch appears before the /R switch on the command
        line, SPUT will use the specified playback rate to calculate
        a new playback rate to be used while oversampling.  See the /O
        switch for details.

        Rate Frequency Approximations:

               1  4679hz   152 11473hz   202 22096hz
              66  6279hz   161 12559hz   212 27118hz
             110  8172hz   171 14037hz   222 35094hz
             132  9622hz   182 16124hz   232 49716hz
             140 10286hz   192 18643hz   242 85227hz

  /RSnnn
        This switch tells SPUT to resample the selected sound file
        while writing it to disk.  It is only applicable when used in
        conjunction with the /W switch.

        Resampling is a process where the playback rate of the specified
        soundfile is changed to the rate you specify with the /RS switch.

        Now virtually any sound file can be played on virtually any
        machine, no matter what the speed of the machine.  If a file
        will not play properly on a slower machine, just resample it
        down to a rate that runs properly on that machine.

        Resampling also has the pleasant side effect of reducing the
        size of the sound file.  The greater the reduction in playback
        rate, the greater the reduction in file size.

  /RU
        This switch will cause SPUT to display the rule numbers used
        when forming words during text-to-speech translation.
  /SH
        You lucky Sound Blaster owners can use this switch to shell to
        the DOS prompt while SPUT is playing your sound file in the
        background.

        As soon as playback is started, SPUT will start a DOS shell and
        print the following message:

                << Type EXIT anytime to return to SPUT >>

        You will then see the familiar DOS prompt where you can run any
        program, to do whatever you like.
        Whenever you decide to quit the shell, just type 'EXIT' at the DOS
        prompt and you will return to SPUT.

        If playback is finished, SPUT will end and return to whatever
        task it was called by, otherwise SPUT will display the following
        message and wait for playback to complete before exiting:

        << Waiting for playback to finish (press ESCAPE to abort) >>

  /T
        Use this switch to enhance treble output of a sound file.

        This uses 3 level non-uniform quantization, which divides the
        entire amplitude range into 3 ranges and assigns the same amplitude
        value to all samples falling in the upper and lower ranges.
        All samples in the low range are set to 0, all samples in the
        high range are set to 255 and all samples falling in the middle
        range are doubled up to 127.  Samples in the middle range above
        127 are clipped.

  /TI
        This switch will cause SPUT to digitize the current time.

  /TX
        This will cause SPUT to enter interactive text mode and display
        a prompt (>).  Any words typed will be digitized when the
        ENTER key is pressed.  Press CTRL-C to exit interactive text
        mode and return to the DOS prompt.

        During interactive text mode, phonemes and phoneme-functions may
        be entered along with regular text to be digitized.

  /V<f>
        This switch is used to specify an alternate voice file.  The
        default voice filename is SPUT.PHD.  The file is assumed to be
        located in the current directory or in the PATH.

  /W<f>
        This switch will cause all output to be redirected to a disk file
        instead of being played.  The format of the output file is
        always 8-bit PCM with a 16-byte Covox style header record.

        All file formats are converted to 8-bit PCM just before being
        output to the selected device.  This switch causes that 8-bit
        PCM data to be captured to a disk file, which can then be
        manipulated much more easily than the other file formats.

        The captured file can be replayed with SPUT using the /H and
        /L switches for high/low-pass filtering, or the waveform of the
        file can be viewed with SPUTWAVE, or the file can be edited
        with a sound file editor.

        Keep in mind that the samples in the output file will reflect
        all switches that were active at the time the file was created.
        If /T is used for treble enhancement, then playing the new file
        with no switch will sound the same as playing the original with
        the /T switch.


  --------------------------------
  3.3.2 SPUT SPECIAL FUNCTION KEYS
  --------------------------------

  The following keys perform special functions while SPUT is playing a
  sound file.  Any other keys pressed, will be placed in the keyboard
  input buffer as usual.

  ESCAPE key
        Pressing the ESCAPE key during file playback, will cause SPUT to
        immediately stop playback and exit.  This will not disturb any
        type ahead already in the keyboard buffer.

  +
        Pressing the + key during file playback, will cause SPUT to increase
        the volume of the sound clip being played.

        This key has no effect when the Sound Blaster DMA driver is being used.
        The DMA driver is the default for the Sound Blaster and is selected
        with the /D2 switch.  If you want to be able to use this function,
        you must select the other Sound Blaster driver with the /D1 switch.
        This can be done just for the playing of a single file by giving the
        switch on the command line as follows:

                SPUT <filename>/D1

        or from the SPUTTER shell, you press the following keys:

                <CTRL-ENTER>/D1<ENTER>

        or you can set this driver to be the normal driver for all playback
        by setting the environment variable as follows:

                SET SPUTARG=/D1

        The Sound Blaster direct driver, selected with the /D1 switch,
        requires a system speed of at least 10mhz to work properly.  If
        the sound file plays too slowly using this driver, then you must
        the DMA driver (/D2), and cannot use the + key.

        Pressing the + key too many times will eventually cause the file
        to play too slowly.

  -
        Pressing the - key during file playback, will cause SPUT to decrease
        the volume of the sound clip being played.

        This key has no effect when the Sound Blaster DMA driver is being used.
        (The same notes for the + key apply to this key)


  ------------------------
  3.3.3 SPUT SCREEN OUTPUT
  ------------------------

  SPUT displays the following information on the screen each time it
  is run.

        SPUT vn.nn Player Utility - Copyright 1991, VersaWare / Adrienne Cousins
        File:E:\SND\TRYAGN.V8   Size:9439/9423  Form:0008/0  Port:022F  Driv:1
        Rate:180  Over:1  Freq:15495hz  Ampl:0+  Time:0.6s
        Samples Output:9423  Silence groups:0  Timer Adjust:11

  or for Macintosh files, the Title from the header is included:

        SPUT vn.nn Player Utility - Copyright 1991, VersaWare / Adrienne Cousins
        File:.\HOWYA.SND   Size:11648/11008  Form:0038/0  Port:022F  Driv:1
        Rate:152  Over:1  Freq:11363hz  Ampl:0+  Time:1.0s  Title:HowYouDoin'?
        Samples Output:11008  Silence groups:0  Timer Adjust:17

  or silence encoding statistics are shown when applicable:

        SPUT vn.nn Player Utility - Copyright 1991, VersaWare / Adrienne Cousins
        File:F:\SND\EXECUTE.V4S   Size:2682/2666  Form:0084/0  Port:022F  Driv:1
        Rate:152  Over:1  Freq:11363hz  Time:0.2s
        Samples Output:12675  Silence groups:10  Timer Adjust:20

  If you are an unregistered user, you will also see the following message
  whenever playback is completed

              ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
              │                                                   │
              │   Thank you for trying The Sputter Sound System   │
              │        If you use Sputter, please register        │
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              │   Registration will remove this message & delay   │
              │          and give you additional features         │
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  File:
        This is the name of the file entered on the command line to SPUT.

  Size:
        The first number is the size of the file in bytes, the second
        is the actual byte size of the data to be played.

  Form:
        The first number is the file format (see /F for definitions)
        The second number indicates Macintosh file compression:

                0 - non-compression
                1 - run length encoding (RLE)
                2 - Dynamic Lempel-Ziv,Weiss compression
                3 - Huffman compression

  Port:
        This is the hex address of the port being used for output.

  Driv:
        This is the driver number used to drive the output device.

  Rate:
        This is the playback rate, specified on the command line, or taken
        from the header record, or recalculated for oversampling.

  Over:
        This is the oversampling factor currently being used.

  Freq:
        This is the frequency (samples per second) that the file is being
        played at.

  Time:
        This is the approximate time it will take to playback the file
        at the current settings.

  Title:
        This only appears when playing Macintosh sound files and comes
        from the internal header record of the sound file.

  Samples Output:
        This is a count of the bytes actually sent to the output device and
        includes all bytes reconstructed as a result of silence encoding,
        and compression.  In third example above, the file uses only 6508
        bytes of disk space to store a file that originally contained
        12126 bytes of sound.

  Silence groups:
        This is how many periods of silence were found in the file, and
        expanded back to their original length.


  --------------------------------
  3.3.4 SPUT ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
  --------------------------------

  SPUTARG
        This allows you to setup any permanent switches that you would
        like SPUT to use every time it's run, without having to enter
        them on the command line.  Any switches specified on the command
        line, will override the switches in the SPUTARG variable.

        You can set this value at the DOS prompt, or by including a line
        in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file with the following command:

                SET SPUTARG=/P220-S/IR7

        This tells SPUT to send all output to a Sound Blaster card
        at port 220 (hex), using interrupt number 7.


  SPUTDIR
        This defines the default directory to find sound files.  If a
        filename is given on the command line with no drive or directory,
        SPUT will look for the file in the directory defined by the
        SPUTDIR variable.

        You can set this value at the DOS prompt, or from your AUTOEXEC.BAT
        file with the following command:

                SET SPUTDIR=C:\SND

        This would tell SPUT to look in the SND directory on the
        C: drive for all sound files.

        To force SPUT to play a file in the current directory without
        having to enter the complete path, use the following command:

                SPUT .\<filename>


  ---------------------------------
  3.3.5 SPUT DICTIONARY FILE FORMAT
  ---------------------------------

        The dictionary file is used to correct SPUT's pronounciation
        errors or change any other attributes of a word like volume or
        speed.  You can also use the dictionary to translate words and
        abbreviations into complete words and phrases.

        The format of the file is straight ascii created with any text
        editor program.  Each entry is 2 lines.

        The first line is the english word and may be in any case.
        The second line is the correct phoneme string to be used to
        pronounce the word, and may also contain simple text, Smooth
        Talker style phonemes and any special phoneme functions that
        are described in the following section.

        The following is an example of a simple phoneme definition to
        correct a mis-pronounciation:

                COW
                ~k-ow

        The following example uses SmoothTalker style phonemes:

                diaper
                <<~dAY4EYp3ER>>

        The following example uses phoneme-functions to make the second
        syllable louder:

                FANTASTIC
                ~f-ae-n-a3+-t-ae-s-a0-t-ih-k

        The following example uses phoneme-functions to make the entire
        word softer:

                WHISPER
                ~a4--wh-ih-s-p-er-a0

        The following example uses simple text to define an abbreviation
        expansion:

                DAC
                digital to analog converter


  ------------------------------
  3.3.6 SPUT PHONEME DEFINITIONS
  ------------------------------

  Phoneme strings always start with the tilde character (~) followed by each
  of the phonemes separated by dashes.  A space or any control character
  ends the word.  (eg.  ~v-ey-p-er is the word VAPOR)
  SPUT phonemes are not case sensitive, and are compatible with TRAN phonemes.

  SmoothTalker phonemes are supported so that any files that already contain
  SmoothTalker phonemes will be interpreted correctly by SPUT.

  Many of the SmoothTalker phonemes have the same name as the SPUT
  phonemes, but those marked with an asterisk (*) are differrent.
  To create a SmoothTalker phoneme string, start the word with 2 less than
  signs, followed by the tilde character, then the string of phonemes,
  followed by 2 greater than signs to end the word. (eg. <<~vEYpER>> )
  SmoothTalker phonemes are case sensitive.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        SPUT Phonemes                   SMOOTH TALKER Phonemes
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        AE   fAt                        AE      short 'a' last
        AH   fAther                    *AA      short 'o' cot
        AW   lAWn                      *AO      intermediate 'o' caught
        AY   hIde                       AY      dipthong ice
        B    soB                        b       plosive in bin
        BB   Back
        CH   CHurCH                     CH      in chin
        D    soD                        d       plosive in din
        DD   Dime
        DH   eiTHer                     DH      'th' in then
        EE   bEEt                      *IY      long 'e' beet
        EH   gEt                        EH      short 'e' best
        ER   mURdER                     ER      'ur' 'er' in further
        EY   gAte                       EY      dipthong in ace
        F    Fault                      f       fricative in fin
        G    doG                        g       plosive in give
        GG   Goat
        H    How                        h       in hit
        IH   bIt                        IH      short 'i' fit
        JJ   Jar                        j       in jin or jug
        J    juDGe
        K    Coat                       k       plosive in kin
        L    Laugh                      l       in light or love
        MM   Moat
        M    suM                        m       nasal in might
        NN   Note
        N    suN                        n       nasal in night
        NG   suNG                       NG      nasal in sing
        OH   lOne                      *OW      long 'o' dose
        OO   fOOl                      *UW      long 'u' lute
        OR   fOR
        OW   hOW                       *AW      dipthong loud
        OY   tOY                        OY      dipthong noise
        P    Pack                       p       plosive in pin
        R    Rate                       r       in rate
        S    Sue                        s       silibant in sin
        SH   SHoe                       SH      silibant in shin
        T    Time                       t       plosive in tin
        TH   eTHer                      TH      fricative in thin
        U    fUll                      *UH      'u' sound in book
        UH   About                     *AH      short 'u' up
        V    Vault                      v       in vim
        W    Wear                       w       in wait or water
        WH   WHere                      WH      in which or where
        Y    Young                      y       in yet or yes
        Z    Zoo                        z       in zen
        ZH   lieSure                    ZH      in pleasure
        SPACE

   The following SmoothTalker phonemes (on the right) have no SPUT
   equivalents, so the closest sounding phonemes have been substituted.

        UH                              AX      schwa 'a' in against
        EH                              IX      duration tween IH,AX in David
        T                               DX      't' in butter
        K                               KX      non-aspirated 'k' ice cold
        T                               TX      non-aspirated 't' misstate
        T                               PX      non-aspirated 't' white spot


   ------------------------------------
   3.3.7 SPUT PHONEME SPECIAL FUNCTIONS
   ------------------------------------

   The special phoneme-functions may be used at the > prompt, in a text file
   or in the exception dictionary.  The changes caused by a phoneme-function
   remain in effect until another matching phoneme-function is processed.

   They may appear alone as in the following example:
        ~A2 loud ~A3 louder ~A3 even louder ~A0 back to normal
   or as part of a phoneme string as in this example:
        ~F-AE-N-A3+-T-AE-S-A0-T-IH-K.


   An   The amplitude function is used to vary the amplitude or volume
        of the created speech.

        Use n or n+ to increase the amplitude
            n- to decrease the amplitude
            0 to return to normal amplitude

        ~A1+ or ~A1 increases the volume 1 step.
        ~A1- decreases the volume 1 step.
        ~A0 sets the volume back to normal.

        Example:  At the > prompt type "this is ~a3 louder"
                  or "this is ~a3- softer"
                  or "this is loudly"  (LOUDLY is in the dictionary file)
                  or type "SPUT .\SAMPLES.TXT" to hear more examples.

   Rn   The rate function is used to vary the rate of the speech.

        Use n to set a new rate
            n+ to increase the current rate
            n- to decrease the current rate
            0 to return to the normal rate

        ~R10+ increases the rate by 10 (relative to current rate)
        ~R10- decreases the rate by 10 (relative to current rate)
        ~R202 sets the rate to 202 (absolute setting)
        ~R0 set the rate back to normal.

        Example:  At the > prompt type "this is ~r10+ faster"
                  or "this is ~r10- slower"
                  or type "SPUT .\SAMPLES.TXT" for more examples.

   Mn   The mode function is used to change between word and letter modes.

        Use 1 to switch to letter mode
            0 to switch to word mode (default)

        Example:  At the > prompt type "this is ~M1 letter mode"
                  or "~M0 this is word mode again"
                  or type "SPUT .\SAMPLES.TXT" for more examples.

   Pn   The punctuation function is used to change the amount of punctuation
        that will be pronounced.

        Use 0 to pronounce no punctuation (none)

            1 to pronounce some punctuation (default)
                 # $ % & = @ + < > ! /
                 and . (point) if followed by a character

            2 to pronounce most punctuation
                 all level 1 punctuation and
                 " ' ( ) * , - : ; ? [ \ ] ^ _ ` { | } ~
                 and . (period)

            3 to pronounce all punctuation
                 all level 1+2 punctuation
                 and all control characters (not yet implemented)


  -------------------------
  3.3.8 SPUT ERROR MESSAGES
  -------------------------

  (01) Command syntax error, type 'SPUT<enter>' for help
  (02) Invalid amplitude, use /An or /An- n=1-255
  (03) Invalid playback rate, use 1-255 default=182/152
  (04) Invalid file format, use 1-88 default=8
  (05) Invalid oversample value, use 1-10 default=1
  (06) Invalid port, use 0-9 or any hex address
  (07) Invalid high-pass filter, use /Hi,r where i=interval and r=repeat
  (08) Invalid low-pass filter, use /Li,r where i=interval and r=repeat
  (09) Invalid continous play value, use 1-254 0-infinite
  (0A) Filtering disabled, only applicable for 8-bit PCM files
  (0B) Not enough memory available, file will be truncated
  (0C) Invalid data length in header record, file has been truncated
  (0D) Error releasing unused memory
  (0E) Memory allocation failure
  (0F) Sound file not found <filename>
  (10) File read error
  (11) Error opening output file
  (12) Error writing header
  (13) Error writing file
  (14) Unknown file format, default format 08 may be incorrect
  (15) Oversampling calculation error, use a smaller Rate or Oversample value
  (16) File format not supported for this device
  (17) Invalid driver, for SPKR use 1(software) 2(polling) 3(ints) 4(8255)
                       for SOUND BLASTER use 1(direct) 2(dma)
  (18) New rate must be smaller than old playback rate
  (19) New frequency is too small (max frequency reduction is half)
  (1A) Voice file not found - <filename>
  (1B) Insufficient memory to load Voice file
  (1C) Voice file read error
  (1D) Sound Blaster initialization failure
  (1E) Text to phoneme translation error
  (1F) Dictionary file not found - <filename>
  (22) Macintosh Resource Fork is missing, default rate of 152 may be incorrect
  (23) Missing or unknown header record, default rate of 182 may be incorrect
  (24) Digitizing text files is only available to registered users
  (25) Another SPUTTER player utility is already running
  (26) The previous error was detected in an environment variable


  -----------------------------------------
  3.3.9 TROUBLE SHOOTING PROBLEMS WITH SPUT
  -----------------------------------------

  ** File plays too slowly (with or without any optional switches)

  This is simply the result of trying to play a file with too high a
  playback rate on too slow of a machine.  A RATE of 180 seems to be
  the fastest rate that an 8mhz AT machine can play, with no SPUT switches.
  Adding switches causes more processing to be done, and will slowdown
  playback even further.

  The solution is to run the file through SPUT with the /RS and /W switches
  to resample the file down to a lower playback rate that the machine
  can handle (ie: SPUT file/RS100/Wfile2).  If the new file still plays
  too slowly, then try the process again using a lower playback rate.


  ****************************************************************************
                 SECTION 3.4 - SPUTROL ROL File Player Utility
  ****************************************************************************

  This section describes the ROL file player program named SPUTROL.  It can
  only be run on an AdLib Music card or a Sound Blaster card.

  SPUTROL requires that you also have an FM sound driver by AdLib, called
  SOUND.COM.  This driver is a memory-resident program and is usually loaded
  before any attempt is made to play .ROL files.  SPUTROL does not require
  that the driver be loaded in advance, since it can load the driver and
  remove it from memory when the song is done.  This will save at least 18k
  bytes of memory.  SOUND.COM must be located somewhere in the PATH in order
  for SPUTROL to find it.

  Playing .ROL files also requires a bank file.  The default bank file name
  is STANDARD.BNK and this file should also be somewhere in the PATH in order
  for SPUTROL to find it.

  Very little memory is required to run SPUTROL, only 12k for the program,
  and enough additional memory to read the BANK file and the ROL file.
  That's it!  To play a 5k ROL file with a 10k BANK file requires only 27k
  of memory.  If you plan on letting SPUTROL load the AdLib FM sound driver
  SOUND.COM, then an additional 18k of memory will be required, but only
  for the duration of the song playing.  All memory is released when the
  song is finished.

  Another feature of SPUTROL is intelligent instrument substitution.  When
  an instrument is not found in the bank file, SPUTROL will attempt to find
  a close match instead of just defaulting to PIANO1.  You can also specify
  your own instrument substitutions if you prefer.


  ---------------------------------------
  3.4.1 SPUTROL COMMAND SYNTAX & SWITCHES
  ---------------------------------------

  Typing 'SPUTROL' with no arguments at the DOS prompt, will print the
  curent version number and a short help screen.

  The command syntax for SPUTROL is as follows:

                SPUTROL <rolfile> [<bankfile>] [/switches]

  <rolfile>
        This is the name of the ROL file to be played.  Any valid DOS
        wildcards may be used to have SPUTROL randomly select a ROL file.
        The extension is not required, and ROL files may be renamed using
        any convenient extension.

        If no path is specified, the directory specified by the SROLDIR
        environment variable will be assumed, otherwise the current
        directory is assumed.

        Specifying a directory as part of the filename, will override
        any directory specified by the SROLDIR environment variable.  Use
        ".\filename" to indicate the current directory and ignore the
        SROLDIR environment variable.

  [<bankfile>]
        This argument is optional, and if used is the name of the bank file
        to be used.  The default name is STANDARD.BNK in the current
        directory, or any directory in the PATH statement.

  [/switches]
        All switches are optional.  The SROLARG environment variable is
        checked first for any permanent switches.  Any switches given on
        the command line will then override the SROLARG switches.
        The valid switches are listed below.

  ?
        Entering a question mark on the command line, will tell SPUTROL to
        display a short help screen.

  /An
        This switch can be used to modify the amplitude or volume of
        a song.  Using a positive number (/An or /An+) will increase the
        volume, and a negative number (/An- ) will decrease the volume.

  /Cn
        This will cause the song file to be played N times, in a
        continous loop.  A value of 0 will play indefinetly, until the
        ESCAPE key is struck.

  /I
        This switch will display on screen, all the file information that
        is normally displayed when the file is played, but without any
        playback occurring.

  /IF
        Normally when SPUTROL detects an invalid ROL file, an error message
        is displayed and the song is not played.  This switch can be used
        to force SPUTROL to play an invalid ROL file format.

  /ISold1=new1,old2=new2
        This switch is used to specify instrument substitutions, where
        OLD1 is the name of the original instrument and NEW1 is the name
        of the instrument to be used in its place.  Up to 5 substitutions
        may be specified, separated by commas.

  /IN
        Normally, only the first 6 instruments are displayed for each voice
        so that the file information will all fit on a single screen.
        Use this switch to force SPUTROL to display all instruments used
        for each of the voices.

  /K
        This switch causes SPUTROL to kill the song that was left playing
        in the background.

  /Mn
        This switch can be used to change the mode of the song.  Zero is
        melodic and uses voices 1-8, and one is percussive and uses voices
        1-6 in melodic mode and voices 7-11 in percussive mode.

  /NW
        This is the NOWAIT switch tells SPUTROL to exit as soon as the
        entire song is loaded into the SOUND driver, and leave the song
        playing in the background.  This switch can only be used if the
        AdLib sound driver SOUND.COM was already loaded before SPUTROL was
        run.

  /Pnnn
        This switch allows selection of the disired output port.  The
        default port address is 388 hex.  No switch is required for
        either the AdLib or SoundBlaster cards.

  /Qn
        This switch is used to set the desired level of screen output.
                /Q0       display everything
                /Q1       display nothing
                /Q2       display errors only

  /Tn
        This switch can be used to change the default tempo of the song.

  /Vnnn
        This switch can be used to specify a single voice or list of voices
        to play.  /V246 would play only voices 2, 4 and 6.  This is most
        useful for proofreading music while creating ROL files, and
        hearing the balance between instruments.  It is also handy for
        determining which voice is playing a particular part for which
        you may want to change an instrument.


  -----------------------------------
  3.4.2 SPUTROL SPECIAL FUNCTION KEYS
  -----------------------------------

  ESCAPE key
        Pressing the ESCAPE key during file playback, will cause SPUTROL to
        immediately stop playback and exit.  This will not disturb any
        type ahead already in the keyboard buffer.

  +
        Pressing the + key during song playback, will cause SPUTROL to
        increase the volume of the overall song being played.  Within a .ROL
        file, the volume to play each instrument is specified as a number
        of 128th's, so that a value of 64 would mean that an instrument
        would play at half it's normal volume, 128 means full volume.

        Each press of the + key, increases every instruments volume by
        five 128th's up to a maximum of 128.

  -
        Pressing the - key during song playback, will cause SPUTROL to
        decrease the volume of the overall song being played.
        Each press of the - key, decreases every instruments volume by
        five 128th's down to a minimum of 1.


  ---------------------------
  3.4.3 SPUTROL SCREEN OUTPUT
  ---------------------------

  SPUTROL displays the following information on the screen each time it
  is run.

  SPUTROL vn.nn ROL Player - Copyright 1990-91, VersaWare / Adrienne Cousins
  Sound driver V1.51 (C) Ad Lib Inc. 1987, 1989
  Sound driver successfully installed.
  BNK File: D:\VOX\STANDARD.BNK v1.0 253/256 entries
  ROL File: E:\ROL\BUMBLBEE.CLS  Mode:0  TPB:8  BPM:2  Tempo:152  TemEvents:1
  Voice Length Inst  Instrument Names  (VolumeChanges/PitchChanges)
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
      1  1572    11  VIOLIN1 SYN4 ELGUIT1 CLAR1 SYNBASS1 CLAR1 (38/60)
      2  1498     8  CLAR1 ELGUIT1 SYN4 VIOLIN1 CLAR1 SYN4 (35/58)
      3  1608     6  ELGUIT2 ELGUIT2 MARIMBA2 ELGUIT2 MARIMBA2 ELGUIT2 (58/1)
      4  1592     6  ELGUIT2 ELGUIT2 MARIMBA2 ELGUIT2 MARIMBA2 ELGUIT2 (49/1)
      5  1592     6  ELGUIT2 ELGUIT2 MARIMBA2 ELGUIT2 MARIMBA2 ELGUIT2 (38/1)
      6  1608     5  ELGUIT2 ELGUIT2 PIANO1 MARIMBA2 ELGUIT2 (22/1)
      7  1608     5  ELGUIT2 ELPIANO2 PIANO1 ELPIANO2 PIANO1 (15/5)
      8  1346     2  ELGUIT2 SYN2 (3/1)
      9  1251     3  PIANO1 TRUMPET4 SYN4 (7/1)
     10     0     1  PIANO1 (1/1)
     11     0     1  PIANO1 (1/1)
   Time to play: 1:19 ■ Loading song into driver ■ Playback has started

  If you are an unregistered user, you will also see the following message
  whenever playback is completed.

              ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
              │                                                   │
              │   Thank you for trying The Sputter Sound System   │
              │        If you use Sputter, please register        │
              │                                                   │
              │   Registration will remove this message & delay   │
              │          and give you additional features         │
              │                                                   │
              └───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

  Line 1:
        This is the program title, version and copyright statement.

  Lines 2 & 3:
        These lines will only be displayed when the AdLib FM sound driver
        SOUND.COM has not been loaded prior to running SPUTROL.  In this
        case, SPUTROL will automatically find and load SOUND.COM and then
        remove it from memory when playback is completed.  When using this
        feature, it is recommended that you keep a copy of SOUND.COM on a
        RAMdisk if available.  The FM sound driver should also be in a
        directory that is in the current path statement.

  BNK File:
        This is the name of the bank file that is being used for playback.
        Also displayed is the version number of the bank file format, and
        the number of used/total entries in the bank file.  The PATH is
        automatically searched to find STANDARD.BNK if a bank file is not
        specified on the command line.

  ROL File:
        This is the name of the ROL file that is being played.
        The extension is not required when specifying a file to be played,
        and files may be renamed using any convenient extension.

  Mode:
        This is the mode of the file being played.  Zero is melodic mode
        which uses voices 1-8 and one is percussive mode, which uses voices
        1-6 in melodic mode and voices 7-11 in percussive mode.

  TPB:
        This is the number of ticks-per-beat defined for this song.

  BPM:
        This is the number of beats-per-measure defined for this song.

  Tempo:
        This is the tempo that the song is being played at, and may be
        changed with the /T switch.

  TemEvents:
        This is the total number of tempo changes that occur in the song.

  Voice Length Inst Instrument Names (VolumeChanges/PitchChanges)
        One line of information is printed for each of the 11 voices and
        contains the following information:
        Voice - the voice number.
        Length - the length of the voice in ticks.
        Inst - the number of instrument changes for this voice.
        Instrument Names - The names of the instruments for this voice.
                An instrument name followed by a slash and another instrument
                names indicates that a substitution has been made.
        (VolChanges/PitChanges) - The number of volume and pitch changes.

  Time to play:
        This is the estimated time that the song will take to play.

  Loading song into driver:
        This indicates that SPUTROL is in the process of loading the song
        into the AdLib FM sound driver.

  Playback has started:
        This indicates that SPUTROL has filled the AdLib FM sound driver
        buffer and the driver has started to play the song.


  -----------------------------------
  3.4.4 SPUTROL ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
  -----------------------------------

  SROLARG
        This allows you to setup any permanent switches that you would
        like SPUTROL to use every time it's run, without having to enter
        them on the command line.  Any switches specified on the command
        line, will override the switches in the SROLARG variable.

        You can set this value at the DOS prompt, or by including a line
        in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file with the following command:

                SET SROLARG=/Q2


  SROLDIR
        This defines the default directory to find ROL files.  If a
        filename is given on the command line with no drive or directory,
        SPUTROL will look for the file in the directory defined by the
        SROLDIR variable.

        You can set this value at the DOS prompt, or from your AUTOEXEC.BAT
        file with the following command:

                SET SROLDIR=C:\SND\ROL

        This tells SPUTROL to look in the \SND\ROL directory on the
        C: drive for all ROL files.

        To force SPUTROL to play a file in the current directory without
        having to enter the complete path, use the following command:

                SPUTROL .\<filename>


  ----------------------------
  3.4.5 SPUTROL ERROR MESSAGES
  ----------------------------

  (01) Error releasing unused memory
  (02) Insufficient memory to load ROL file
  (03) ROL file not found - <filename>
  (04) ROL file read error
  (05) Invalid ROL file format - <filename>
  (06) BANK file not found - <filename>
  (07) BANK file read error
  (08) Invalid BANK file
  (09) Insufficient memory to load BANK file
  (10) Command syntax error, type 'SPUTROL<enter>' for help
  (11) Instrument not found <instrument>
  (12) SOUND.COM driver not loaded, loading temporarily
  (13) Invalid amplitude, use /An or /An- (n=1-255)
  (14) Error loading Tempo Events
  (15) Error loading Instrument Events
  (16) Error loading Volume Events
  (17) Error loading Pitch Events
  (18) Insufficient memory to load instruments
  (19) Another SPUTTER player utility is already running
  (20) Insufficient memory to load SOUND driver
  (21) Error loading SOUND driver
  (22) The previous error was detected in an environment variable


  ****************************************************************************
                 SECTION 3.5 - SPUTCMF CMF File Player Utility
  ****************************************************************************

  This section describes the CMF file player program named SPUTCMF.  It can
  only be run on an AdLib Music card of a Sound Blaster card.

  SPUTCMF requires that you also have an FM sound driver by Creative Labs
  called SBFMDRV.COM.  This driver is a memory-resident program and is
  usually loaded before any attempt is made to play .CMF files.  SPUTCMF
  does not require that the driver be loaded in advance, since it can load
  the driver and remove it from memory when the song is done.  This will save
  at least 7k bytes of memory.  SBFMDRV.COM must be located somewhere in the
  PATH in order for SPUTCMF to find it.

  Very little memory is required to run SPUTCMF, only 6k for the program,
  and enough additional memory to read the CMF file into memory.
  That's it!  To play a 5k CMF file requires only 11k of memory.
  If you plan on letting SPUTCMF load the Creative Labs FM sound driver
  SBFMDRV.COM, then an additional 7k of memory will be required, but only
  for the duration of the song playing.  All memory is released when the
  song is finished.


  ---------------------------------------
  3.5.1 SPUTCMF COMMAND SYNTAX & SWITCHES
  ---------------------------------------

  Typing 'SPUTCMF' with no arguments at the DOS prompt, will print the
  version number and a short help screen.

  The command syntax for SPUTCMF is as follows:

                SPUTCMF <cmffile> [/switches]

  <cmffile>
        This is the name of the CMF file to be played.  Any valid DOS
        wildcards may be used to have SPUTCMF randomly select a CMF file.
        The extension is not required, and CMF files may be renamed using
        any convenient extension.

        If no path is specified, the drive:directory specified by the
        SCMFDIR environment variable will be searched, otherwise the
        current directory is assumed.

        Specifying a directory as part of the filename, will override
        any directory specified by the SCMFDIR environment variable.  Use
        ".\filename" to indicate the current directory and ignore the
        SCMFDIR environment variable.

  [/switches]
        All switches are optional.  The SCMFARG environment variable is
        checked first for any permanent switches.  Any switches given on
        the command line will then override the SCMFARG switches.
        The valid switches are listed below.

  ?
        Entering a question mark on the command line, will tell SPUTCMF to
        display a short help screen.

  /Cn
        This will cause the song file to be played N times, in a
        continous loop.  A value of 0 will play indefinetly, until the
        ESCAPE key is struck.

  /I
        This switch will display on screen, all the file information that
        is normally displayed when the file is played, but without any
        playback occurring.

  /IF
        Normally when SPUTCMF detects an invalid CMF file, an error message
        is displayed and the song is not played.  This switch can be used
        to force SPUTCMF to play an invalid CMF file format.

  /K
        This switch causes SPUTROL to kill the song that was left playing
        in the background.

  /NW
        This is the NOWAIT switch tells SPUTCMF to exit as soon as the
        entire song is loaded into the FM sound driver, and leave the song
        playing in the background.  This switch can only be used if the
        Creative Labs FM sound driver SBFMDRV was already loaded before
        SPUTCMF was run.

  /Pnnn
        This switch allows selection of the disired output port.  The
        default port address is 220 hex.  No switch is required for the
        SoundBlaster card.  AdLib cards will require the /P388 switch to
        work properly.

  /Qn
        This switch is used to set the desired level of screen output.
                /Q0       display everything
                /Q1       display nothing
                /Q2       display errors only

  /SH
        This switch is used to shell to the DOS prompt while SPUTCMF is
        playing your music file in the background.

        As soon as the song is started, SPUTCMF will start a DOS shell and
        print the following message:

                << Type EXIT anytime to return to SPUTCMF >>

        You will then see the familiar DOS prompt where you can run any
        program, to do whatever you like.
        Whenever you decide to quit the shell, just type 'EXIT' at the DOS
        prompt and you will return to SPUTCMF.

        If playback is finished, SPUTCMF will end and return to whatever
        task it was called by, otherwise SPUTCMF will display the following
        message and wait for playback to complete before exiting:

        << Waiting for playback to finish (press ESCAPE to abort) >>

  /Tn
        This switch can be used to change the default tempo of the song.


  -----------------------------------
  3.5.2 SPUTCMF SPECIAL FUNCTION KEYS
  -----------------------------------

  ESCAPE key
        Pressing the ESCAPE key during file playback, will cause SPUTCMF to
        immediately stop playback and exit.  This will not disturb any
        type ahead already in the keyboard buffer.


  ---------------------------
  3.5.3 SPUTCMF SCREEN OUTPUT
  ---------------------------

  SPUTCMF displays the following information on the screen each time it
  is run.

  SPUTCMF vn.nn CMF Player - Copyright 1991, VersaWare / Adrienne Cousins
  Creative Sound Blaster FM-Driver  Version 1.21
  Copyright (c) Creative Labs, Inc., 1990.  All rights reserved.
  Copyright (c) Creative Technology Pte Ltd, 1990.  All rights reserved.
        Sound Blaster Card Version
  Driver's I/O address set at 220 Hex
  Driver installed at INT 80H.
  CMF File: E:\SND\CMF\CANTINA.CMF  Size:17556  TPB:23  TPS:96  Tempo:250
  Port:0220  Title:  Composer:  Remarks:
  Loading song into driver ■ Playback has started

  If you are an unregistered user, you will also see the following message
  whenever playback is completed.

              ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
              │                                                   │
              │   Thank you for trying The Sputter Sound System   │
              │        If you use Sputter, please register        │
              │                                                   │
              │   Registration will remove this message & delay   │
              │          and give you additional features         │
              │                                                   │
              └───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

  Line 1:
        This is the program title, version and copyright statement.

  Lines 2 thru 7:
        These lines will only be displayed when the Creative Labs FM sound
        driver SBFMDRV.COM has not been loaded prior to running SPUTCMF.  In
        this case, SPUTCMF will automatically find and load SBFMDRV.COM and
        remove it from memory when playback is completed.  When using this
        feature, it is recommended that you keep a copy of SBFMDRV.COM on a
        RAMdisk if available.  The FM sound driver should also be in a
        directory that is in the current path statement.

  CMF File:
        This is the name of the CMF file that is being played.
        The extension is not required when specifying a file to be played,
        and files may be renamed using any convenient extension.

  TPB:
        This is the number of ticks-per-beat defined for this song.

  TPS:
        This is the number of ticks-per-second defined for this song.

  Tempo:
        This is the tempo that the song is being played at, and may be
        changed with the /T switch.

  Loading song into driver:
        This indicates that SPUTCMF is in the process of loading the song
        information into the Creative Labs FM sound driver.

  Playback has started:
        This indicates that SPUTCMF has passed the music information to
        the Creative Labs FM sound driver and the driver has started to play
        the song.


  -----------------------------------
  3.5.4 SPUTCMF ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
  -----------------------------------

  SCMFARG
        This allows you to setup any permanent switches that you would
        like SPUTCMF to use every time it's run, without having to enter
        them on the command line.  Any switches specified on the command
        line, will override the switches in the SCMFARG variable.

        You can set this value at the DOS prompt, or by including a line
        in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file with the following command:

                SET SCMFARG=/Q2


  SCMFDIR
        This defines the default directory to find CMF files.  If a
        filename is given on the command line with no drive or directory,
        SPUTCMF will look for the file in the directory defined by the
        SCMFDIR variable.

        You can set this value at the DOS prompt, or from your AUTOEXEC.BAT
        file with the following command:

                SET SCMFDIR=C:\SND\CMF

        This tells SPUTCMF to look in the \SND\CMF directory on the
        C: drive for all CMF files.

        To force SPUTCMF to play a file in the current directory without
        having to enter the complete path, use the following command:

                SPUTCMF .\<filename>


  ----------------------------
  3.5.5 SPUTCMF ERROR MESSAGES
  ----------------------------

  (01) Error releasing unused memory
  (02) Insufficient memory to load CMF file
  (03) CMF file not found - <filename>
  (04) CMF file read error
  (05) Invalid CMF file format - <filename>
  (10) Command syntax error, type 'SPUTCMF<enter>' for help
  (12) SBFMDRV.COM driver not loaded, loading temporarily
  (19) Another SPUTTER player utility is already running
  (20) Insufficient memory to load SBFMDRV driver
  (21) Error loading SBFMDRV driver
  (22) The previous error was detected in an environment variable


  ****************************************************************************
                    SECTION 3.6 - SPUTWAVE Waveform viewer
  ****************************************************************************

  This section describes the utility SPUTWAVE, which displays an 8-bit
  PCM sound file as a wave form on the screen.  An EGA display adapter
  or better is required and it supports the following syntax & switches:

        sputwave [<drive:>]<filename> [/On] [/Ln]

  /On
        N is a byte offset into file where display should start.
  /Ln
        N is the length of data to display in bytes.  This number must
        be at least the pixel width of the current screen mode
        (usually 640), and must not be a value that would exceed the
        end of the file or a run-time error will occur.  The default data
        length displayed is 1 meg.


  ****************************************************************************
                  SECTION 3.7 - SPUTST Smooth Talker Utility
  ****************************************************************************

  This section describes the Smooth Talker Device Driver utility named
  SPUTST.  This program can be used to send commands to the Smooth Talker
  Device Driver called STDRIVER.SYS loaded in the CONFIG.SYS file.

  Simply type 'SPUTST' at the DOS prompt followed by any of the allowed
  three letter commands, separated by spaces.

                SPUTST cm1 cm2 cm3

  Typing just 'SPUTST' or 'SPUTST ?' will print a short help screen.

  SPUTST vn.nn Smooth Talker Utility - (C) 1991 VersaWare / Adrienne Cousins
  Voice Master Mode Commands:
          EVM     enable Voice Master Mode (digitized data)
          RDH     read VMF file header (supress playback)
          PLY     playback data file in buffer
          SPE     set playback speed 0-255
          VOL     set playback volume 1-8
          CKE     use 8253 timer for playback speed
          CKD     use software timing for playback speed
          DAC     enable alternate port address 0-65535 (def 408+409)
          WRA     set repeat playback 1-255 0=key
          USR     use alternate user address 100h-1FFh
  Smooth Talker Mode Commands:
          SV2     enable Smooth Talker Mode (SPEECHV2)
          SV3     enable Smooth Talker Mode (SPEECHV3)
          ENG     input will be English strings
          PHO     input will be phonetic strings
          XEP     convert next string from English to Phonetics
          TTE     enable echo of string data to screen
          TTD     disable echo of string data to screen
          CRE     enable carriage returns as string terminator
          CRD     disable carriage returns as string terminator
          FLU     flush the 255 byte string buffer
          TON     set voice tone 0=low 1=high
          SPE     set speed of playback 0-9
          PIT     set pitch of playback 0-9
          VOL     set volume of playback 0-9
  Use "COPY <filename> ST" for text files in Smooth Talker Mode
  Use "COPY <filename>/B ST" for digitized files in Voice Master Mode


  ****************************************************************************
                SECTION 3.8 - SPUTONE DESQview One-window Utility
  ****************************************************************************

  This section describes the DESQview shared program called SPUTONE.SHR.

  This program is used to prevent multiple copies of the Sputter Player
  window from being run at the same time from the Event Monitor.

  The PIF file for the Sputter Player Window is called SP-PIF.DVP and comes
  already configured to use SPUTONE.SHR as a DESQview shared program.

  When using Change-a-Program to modify the SP-PIF.DVP file, pressing F1
  to view the advanced options will show SPUTONE.SHR entered as the shared
  program name.


  ****************************************************************************
                        SECTION 4 - MISCELLANEOUS
  ****************************************************************************

  --------------------
  4.1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  --------------------

  I'd like to thank the following people for their wonderful suggestions
  and help, without whom the SPUTTER Sound System would not be what it is
  today.

        Marty Peter, who first got me thinking about writing my own
        playback program, instead of relying on other player programs
        to play my custom sound files.  And for his great suggestion
        about a point-and-shoot interface that gave birth to the
        SPUTTER File Manager.

        Rich Wilson, for his suggestion of adding the BEEP event type to
        SPUTMON the Event Monitor, his suggestion to invoke playback from
        the DOS prompt, and for his support and friendship.

        Bernie Parent and Randy Bechtel, who's feedback made me realize
        the need to support the slower machines running at 4 and 8mhz.
        This prompted me to develop additional internal speaker drivers
        to support these machines.

        Tom Peters, for his sound clips and text files that mentioned the
        technique of resampling sound files.  This gave me the idea to
        implement the resampling algorithym, so that the playback rate
        of a soundfile can be changed so that it can be played on ANY
        speed machine.

        Dan Dubbs, for his suggestions to support the Sound Blaster,
        and AdLib music cards, the ability to spawn user defined programs
        and batch files from SPUTMON the Event Monitor, and offering many
        other neat suggestions.

        Bruce Tomlin, the author of SoundMaster for the Macintosh, for
        his help in locating the playback rate in Macintosh sound files.

        Randy Arntzen, for his idea of adding a Keystroke event type
        to the Event Monitor.

        Ed Clarke & Gary Levine, for their help in tracking down an
        elusive bug in the video display routines.

        John Fortais, for all his help in tracking down a problem with 4DOS,
        a VDS related bug, and other player bugs.

        John Blackwell, for his help in tracking down the Norton related bugs.

        Bob Senzig, for his suggestion of adding support for the Disney
        Sound Source, his insight on how the hardware works, and his
        generosity in lending me a unit for testing.

        Chong and Goh at Creative Labs, for all their help and for posting
        Sputter on the Creative Labs BBS.

        Bob Barry, for his suggestion to use +/- keys to change the volume
        while playing .ROL files, and to add the /SHell switch to SPUTCMF.

        Jerry Skoff, for all his feedback for improvements to the
        documentation

                              Thank you all !!


  ---------------------
  4.2 TECHNICAL SUPPORT
  ---------------------

  Technical support for Sputter is available to all users, registered and
  unregistered.  Please report any problems you may have, so that I can
  address these problems and clear them up.  If you don't report them, I
  have no way of knowing that Sputter isn't working for you.

  Also... please don't think any of your questions are silly.  If something
  about Sputter isn't clear, I'd like to hear about it so I can clarify the
  documentation.  I am away of the fact that it's quite heavy on detail
  and I'm trying to improve it with each new release.

  I would also be interested in seeing any files that SPUTTER is not
  able to playback correctly.  You can either mail them to me, or upload
  them to me direct by calling my voice number.

  Also, let me know if you have a sound board that Sputter doesn't already
  support, and I'll see what I can do about adding drivers for it.  If
  Sputter doesn't have a driver for it, chances are I've just never heard of
  it - or haven't been able to get my hands on one!

  How you can reach me:

        Mail:  VersaWare / Adrienne Cousins
               30 Jennifer Street
               Littleton, MA 01460

        Phone: [phone] (voice) from 9am-5pm (Eastern time)
               Please call during the day to schedule evening consultations.

        EMail: Channel 1 BBS in Cambridge MA at 617-354-8873
               Exec-PC BBS in Milwaukee WI at 414-789-4210
               Any BBS that carries the RelayNet Adlib conference


  ----------------
  4.3 REGISTRATION
  ----------------

  You may use The Sputter Sound System free of charge for a period of
  10 days.  If after that period of time, you find it useful and
  continue to use it, a $25 registration fee is required.

  During this evaluation period, the SPUT, SPUTROL and SPUTCMF player programs
  will display a shareware message and pause for a few seconds after
  playback of each file.

  When you register, you will receive your own registration number and
  instructions for unlocking The Sputter Sound System and removing this
  message and delay.  You will also be able to unlock all future shareware
  releases of The Sputter Sound System.

  To register, just fill out and print the enclosed registration form
  MAILER.TXT, attach your check and pop it in the mailbox.  Then you will
  receive your own registration number in the mail.

  For instant registration, you can call me by phone and I'll be happy
  to issue a registration number in advance of receiving your check.
  This will unlock The Sputter Sound System immediately.
  See the section on Technical Support for the phone number and hours.


  -------------------------------
  4.4 SPUTTER FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS
  -------------------------------

  See the file FUTURE.TXT for a list of enhancements that I'm planning on
  implementing in future releases.


  --------------------------
  4.5 SOURCES OF SOUND FILES
  --------------------------

  Check out the Amiga & Macintosh conferences of your favorite BBS.
  These areas are usually chuck full of sound files.  Both types of files
  usually have the playback rate stored within the file.

  Some of my favorites are:

        Exec-PC BBS in Milwaukee WI at 414-789-4210
        Channel 1 BBS in Cambridge MA at 617-354-8873

  If you find an especially good source of sound files, let me know and
  I'll add it to this section, so others can enjoy them too.


  --------------------------
  4.6 SPEAKER OUTPUT QUALITY
  --------------------------

  If the output volume of your speaker is so low that you can't hear much,
  one solution is to attach an inexpensive amplified speaker similar to
  those sold by Radio Shack.  These usually have a volume control knob, and
  some also have a tone control knob.  Most run on batteries, and some can
  use an optional AC adapter.  All you need to do is attach the two wires
  from the external speaker to the two wires on the internal speaker, or
  you can attach mini jacks.

  For even better playback quality, you can purchase any of the Digital to
  Analog Converters available on the market.  Some of the ones that I know
  about are as follows:

          Sound Source by Disney; 8-bit D/A sound converter that attaches to
                the LPT port.  Has amplified speaker with volume knob and
                auxilary headphone jack.  Battery is turned on and off
                automatically by software. Sells for under $25.

        Speech Thing by Covox Inc.; 8-bit D/A sound converter that attaches
                to the LPT port. Has amplified speaker with volume knob,
                auxilary headphone jack, and optional AC jack.
                Comes with manual, graphics-based sound editor and Smooth
                Talker text-to-speech software. List $79.95

        Voice Master I by Covox Inc.; 8-bit plug-in board with D/A and
                A/D sound converters with DMA capability. Has dual microphone
                inputs, speaker output port and volume control knob.
                Comes with manual, microphone headset, graphics-based sound
                editor. List $149.95

        Voice Master II by Covox Inc.; same as Voice Master I in an external
                box that attaches to the LPT port, without the DMA ability.
                Has dual microphone inputs, built in speaker and output port,
                volume control knob, tone control knob.  Comes with manual
                microphone headset, graphics-based sound editor. List $219.95

        Adlib Music Synthesizer Card; 8-bit plug-in board with an FM music
                synthesizer chip.

        Sound Blaster by Creative Labs; 8-bit plug-in board with an FM music
                synthesizer chip (AdLib compatible) and an intelligent DAC
                with DMA capability for playing and recording digitized sound
                files.  Has stereo output port, microphone port, volume
                control knob, proprietary hardware decompression, standard
                joystick port and built-in MIDI interface.  Includes manual,
                and stereo cables with RCA jacks.

  --------------
  4.7 DISCLAIMER
  --------------

  All of the SPUTTER programs and this documentation are Copyright 1990-1991
  by VersaWare and Adrienne Cousins, all rights reserved.

  VersaWare hereby disclaims all warranties relating to this product,
  whether express or implied, including without limitation any implied
  warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
  VersaWare cannot and will not be liable for any special, incidental,
  consequential, indirect or similar damages due to loss of data or any
  other reason, even if VersaWare or an authorized VersaWare agent has
  been advised of the possibility of such damages.  In no event shall the
  liability for any damages ever exceed the price paid for the license to
  use software, regardless of the form and/or extent of the claim.  The
  person using the software bears all risk as to the quality and performance
  of the software.


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