Hi Bonnie,

You can test if you have java installed by going to a DOS window
and typing the command:  java
If it's installed the response will be a number of lines starting
with the line:
Usage: JAVA.EXE [-options] class [args...]

If it's not installed, then the response will be:
Bad command or file name 

I could give you a .zip file with java and my small program
files included, but all you would need is the small program
files if you already have java installed on your PC.  The .zip
file that includes java is 11.9 MB.

The program I'm working on will wake up every 5 minutes and
check if the Caltech earthquake listing file has been changed.  If
it has, then the computer bell will sound every five seconds for
5 minutes.  There will be a file on your disk named neweqs.fin
with a listing of the new earthquakes.  If you're away from
the computer for more than 5 minutes, you can just check the
file neweqs.fin to see if you've missed an alarm.

How does this sound?

I just noticed one slight problem.  Sometimes the Caltech event file
is changed because an earthquake more than 7 days old has been
dropped from the current listing.  In this case, the alarm sounds
but the file neweqs.fin contains the oldest event in the new
listing rather than a very recent event.

John

At 09:06 PM 7/3/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi, I have a Pentium 133 running Windows '95 hopefully to be upgraded to '98
>and I am using a speech program called Jaws--Job Access With Speech.
>Anyway, according to what I have been told Jaws will read Java language and
>it can also handle a Dos Window.  


John C. Lahr
POB 1529
Golden, CO 80402
(303) 215-9913
http://lahr.org/john-jan

I am only one
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything
and because I cannot 
do everything
I will not refuse 
to do the something
that I can do.
Edward Everette Hale

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