[BlindTlk] not terribly helpful

[David Andrews]

I haven't kept that stuff up in years, and don't know of anything I can do.

At one time I was a huge Provox user -- and was partners with Chuck 
Hallenbeck, but stopped using it by 1995.

Dave


At 02:13 AM 6/4/2020, you wrote:
>I tried downloading PRVX671B.ZIP from nfb's file resources and found the
>zip file broken.  It was impossible to extract since it was missing a
>central directory.  It would be helpful if broken files cannot be replaced
>to have them removed from this and other web sites.
>As it is, I've been trying to come up with a valid version of provox that
>will run a litetalk speech synthesizer for a friend who probably will not
>live to witness the 2021 New Year.  He has a dos box and I sent him that
>synthesizer and may have sent him the provox software except my floppy
>drive is broken so I couldn't verify that on this end.  His Linux machine
>has no floppy drive of course and neither of us have usb floppy drives.
>He has a dectalk express synthesizer he told me is dead and I think he
>lost the software for that too.  Downloading blindness-related files from
>nfbnet is dangerous since the zip files may all be broken.
>
>
>
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