Hi All,

I am looking for an old Dos util (SAY.COM)that originated from PcMag I am led to believe. Has anyone got a copy (it was freeware) and "E" mail it to me please.

Regards,

Dave

Is this the one you are looking for?

http://users.rcn.com/python/downloa...

Hi Valerie,

firstly thanks for the prompt reply!

Yes it is the "SAY.COM" I am looking for but when you click on the "say.com" link to download it it fails. I have also downloaded the "Say.zip" file hoping that the say.com file would be within but alas it only contains the source code. I am unable to compile the program/util from this as I think you need coding experience, which sadly I lack & I think dos TASM is needed to do it.

Has anyone got the .COM file, I would be much oblighed!

Regards,

Dave

You need to use an old dos program called debug to compile???? the script. It has been a long time since I have done this.

Create a text file with notepad.

SAY 65 66 67 13 10
SAY "ABC" 13 10
SAY "ABC" CR LF

Save it as say.scr on C: or a floppy A:

Then C:\> debug < say.scr
or A:\> debug < say.scr
Enter.
Say com will be on c: or A:

Best done on floppy. Nothing worse than a bad com on C:

For the life of me I cannot remember but do not hit enter after each line of code. Just click to start a new line.

Perhaps some one has a running machine that has debug on it and help you out.

Hope this is of some help.

I tried to assembly the unpacked say.zip but failed to generate xlat.obj. I used the Watcom wasm assembler, but xlat seems to refuse to correctly be translated into binary.

I will retry tomorrow, but I hope anyone can help you. Beware the code contains other minor bugs.

Well... hardly.

What's needed to compile asm code is an assembler. [surprise]

Debug [included with evry dose of DOS and winders back to at least DOS 3.2] can funtion as a 'mini'assembler' and work with syntax like this:
=================================
N SCANKEY.COM
A 100
XOR AH, AH
INT 16
CMP AH, 0
JE 100
MOV AL, AH
MOV AH, 4C
INT 21

R CX
10
W
Q

===========================
say.asm didn't work with TASM; maybe it's written for MASM.

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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2

Yep.
Well it has been a while.
Seemed something was missing from the code.
I got two errors from debug.

Kept thinking ...something is missing ...

Funny...I used to use scankey in batch files...oh there was talk about inventing the wheel at the time as well.

But fire won out and we had to wait another week for the wheel.

The older I get the more I forget....lol

w.L.

Wow Thanks everyone for your help & Input,

Well firstly my appologies, I hate the idea of answering my own questions & honestly I have looked high & low for "Say" but I may have dropped lucky with a similair replacement. I have not tried it yet but the author professes only minor diffs to the Ziff Davies "Say.com" varient.

This recent find is called SAY!.COM, first minor diff is in the name but what is in a name anyway LOL! It comes complete with Help file source code & Yippee it comes with a good old ".COM", file within - Phew!

I must say it is sad to see some of these old Dos utils disappear into oblivion as each have there own querky merits & in my view are worth preserving.

Anyway for anyone who is interested in this find along with others, Some freeware, others not here is the link:

http://mindprod.com/products4.html#...

There is a mini index near to the top of the page with other dos goodies & Say!.com is near the bottom of the page for any who are interested. Keep trying with the Ziff Davies "Say" it seems like a good util & I would be interested in a copy for posterity!

Regards to ALL,

Dave

I went to that page but couldn't find a way to get SAY!

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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2

Hi Mechanix2Go,

Tis easy to acquire, Go back to the link above, scroll down the very long page or at the top of the page left click on "Say!" text in a small square box it will turn from blue to red colour & then it will quickly project you to the say! section/description & download area.

Then navigate from the the blue colomn far left to right to the mouve colomn on the right hand side of the page. You will see there summary/manual for the description the next mouve box down has the download link. Click on that & the download dialogue box should appear with "Saybng15.zip" file ready. the rest you will know.

Hope that helps incidently there is other good stuff there, free 2. If you have further probs I can "E" Mail it to you if this option does not work.

let me know & I will try to help?

Regards,

Dave

Hi Dave,

Got it.

Thanks

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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2

Using this Google query I was able to find some links to say.com.

Thanks, tony

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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2

Hi Tony,

Just a further note of thanks for the links to "SAY.COM" It seems like a very useful util.

Regards,

Dave

It's amazing what you can find with Google if you know how to use the commands.

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