[BlindTlk] not terribly helpful

[Jude DaShiell]

I think we got the provox problem solved from another source.  What may
be a problem for the files directory in that website could be more than
provox is corrupted and the span of corruption is unknown to the
webmaster in this respect provox may not be unique.  Removing broken
files cuts space used and could save the nfb some money over time.

On Sun, 7 Jun 2020, David Andrews via BlindTlk wrote:

> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 16:00:52
> From: David Andrews via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: David Andrews <dandrews920 at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] not terribly helpful
>
> 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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