[MV] IBM ViaVoice 3 and 10.4.7

[Jonathan Levi, M.D.]

At 2:35 PM -0700 8/29/06, revDAVE wrote:
>A few hours ago - I wrote an e-mail to the list manager - to fix a our spam
>problem ... Lets see if this works

Seems to have.

>On 8/29/2006 12:27 PM, "Jonathan Levi, M.D." <drjlevi at netonecom.net> wrote:
>
>>  At 10:30 PM -0400 8/28/06, revDAVE wrote:
>>>  Does anyone know if poor old ailing IBM 
>>>ViaVoice 3 works any worse in 10.4.7
>>>  as it did in 10.4.6? I'd like to check b4 I upgrade...
>>
>>  Although the following doesn't exactly answer question, it might
>>  still be helpful.
>>
>>  I installed 10.4.7 on my office computer, but went back to 10.4. 6,
>>  not so much because of ViaVoice problems, but problems with other
>>  applications. 
>
>- I am curious what other applications you had trouble with?

Specifically, Nisus®Writer 6.0.3, a wonderful, 
pre-OS X word-processing program that I still use 
heavily in my office. OS 10.4.6 began opening all 
my Nisus documents with TextEdit, destroying all 
the formatting. I was able to work around this by 
appending to all my Nisus documents the suffix 
".nsd", then making Nisus the default application 
for such documents, but this solution failed with 
10.4.7. Subsequently, a member of the Nisus 
Writers' List devised an elegant workaround even 
for 10l.4.7, but by that time I had switched back 
10 10.4.6.

>- I have a Canon printer -  do you think that will still work?

Sorry, I have no idea. However, I'm sure that you 
could find an answer to that question by 
searching the archives of various MacOS X fora, 
i.e., Macintosh News and Information 
<Mac-L at lists.listmoms.net> or any of a number of 
fora at  http://www.macfixitforums.com/

>  >ViaVoice is pretty lame either way: VoiceCenter has a
>>  nasty habit of dying abruptly with the message, "The Microphone Is
>>  [sic] Been Used Exclusively By Another Application", plus at least
>>  one suite of commands (containing "backspace", "Pick [n]") doesn't
>>  get installed.
>
>Here's a solution from David - that ended up being a good workaround...
>Sometimes I have to jump between several programs and hit the f8 a few times
>before it starts up...
>
>
>-Email Dupe-
>
>From: David K. Wehe <dkw at umich.edu>
>To: revDAVE coolcat at hosting4days.com
>Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 7:10:44 PM
>Subject: Fwd: Re: [MV] IBM ViaVoice 3 Having Problems In Tiger
>
>
>Just use the F8 key. I don't know if this will work on the new MPBs.
>
>dkw.

Dave's solution appreciated (although naturally, 
I'm partial to my own solution) -- but _how_ does 
it work, I wonder?

As to my own unanswered question why the 
backspace, Pick n commands, etc, don't get 
installed, I my try installing ViaVoice on an 
older home computer that still runs 10.3.9, then 
see if I can figure out what's installed that's 
missing on the newer system.

But first: Can you still use "backspace" and 
"pick 1" in your current 10.4.6 setup?

Many thanks and HTH,

Jonathan