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Gregory Scott Flusche (gflusche@gab.unt.edu) wrote:
: In article <1992Oct27.081342.25100@u.washington.edu> optimus@milton.u.washington.edu (Eunice Nam) writes:
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: >
: >Hello,
: >I just downloaded a talking clock for windows from ftp.cica.indiana.edu.
: >The program was ment to be used with a sound card. I don't have
: >a sound card, but according to the documentation it can also be
: >use with just the plane PC speaker. But I need to load a Microsoft
: >sound driver. The documentation says that this driver is readily
: >available, however I wasn't able to find in any of the FTP sites.
: >Could anyone point me the right FTP site where I can obtain a copy of
: >this file and/or send me the file uuencoded?
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: Microsoft has a 1-800-number that has all of their phone numbers listed. If 
: you don't have that call 1-800-555-1212 and get the number from information.
: 
: By the way, that driver will stop all other processes dead in their tracks 
: from the moment it starts emitting sound until is is done. So if you are 
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A quibble:
I believe this is only true if you set up the driver that way
(something like "disable interrupts" = ON)... you CAN enable interrupts
if you wish... then again, with this driver and interrupts = ON,
the sound quality becomes SO awful for any spoke words that it'll probably 
be unacceptable, which means that IN EFFECT the previous follower-up was
correct since you'll end up with interrupts OFF...
Hey, I SAID it was a quibble!

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