Re: Pager

Torkil Zachariassen (torkill@login.dknet.dk)
Sat, 25 May 1996 14:31:39 +0200

On Wed, 22 May 1996 15:16:17 +0200,
mario.kratzer@rsrz14.hrz.Uni-Marburg.DE (Mario Kratzer) wrote
in list.yarn:
>>On Tue, 21 May 1996, Mario Kratzer wrote:

>>> Why not have the possibility to
>>> use an user defined pager for message viewing?

> one could use a braille translator to display it on a
>braille output device, for example. Or -- as it is in my case -- use a
>program designed for better speech output performance (I wouldn't have
>to page the message but rather can listen to it continuously).

Perhaps you could do it by piping the message to an external program.

As an example I sometimes pipe a message into an editor this way:

Press "|" and a Pipe command can be entered.
Enter "Command /e:512 /c edit %f"

Then the editor loads with the file "message.snd", and when I
exit the editor, I am returned to Yarn. In the above "%f" is
seems to be the file where Yarn keeps the message that one
is currently viewing. "edit" is just some external command,
and could be "braille" as well. "command /E:512" is needed
on this machine for memory reasons, and may not be needed
on yours, or may perhaps be replaced by "call", or just nothing.

Perhaps a Pipe command like

command /e:512 /c braille %f

or

braille %f

could do the job for you. (Be sure that the braille program is in
the path on your machine).

Just a suggestion

torkill