Will any screen readers used in dos run in dosemu? I use speakup in linux and find it doesn't do dos real well. If I end up with megadots or something like that, it'd be cool to use something like that in linux to braille away if I had a braille printer (can't afford it at the moment). At 11:22 AM 12/1/01 -0800, you wrote: >I do not use DOS for many years and do not know the programs you are using >under it. One thing that I would try first is to run dosemu, DOS emulator, >and the same programs you use already. That way you gradualy move over to >Linux and replace DOS programs with native Linux ones if available. Of >course there is a danger that not all programs will run well under dosemu. >Well behaved ones do. > >DOS partition can be mounted under Linux and accessed from dosemu and >hopefuly your program would run the same way it does in it's native >environment. > >There are commercial products like VMware and Win4linux (I think) which >you can use for running windows in Linux or the other way around. I use >VMware at work to run Windows 2000 inside Linux. I need that because of >only one application, Checkpoint firewall management console. I must say >that VMware works great and W2000 behaves like a real PC with >emulation of power on,self test, boot, and networking. > >Good luck, > >-- >Rafael > > >On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 12:36:12PM -0500, Bill Gaughan wrote: >> >> Hi, listers, >> >> I am looking for a money management program that works in linux without >> X-windows. One that is, of course, blind friendly. Pull-down menus or >> numbered key choices from a screen menu, okay. I need to do simple home >> money management, track a check register, income and expense tracking, >> keep track of credit card purchases, etc. I don't need fancy reports like >> account summaries or general ledgers. Just simple transaction data entry >> would be fine. Anybody remember MoneyCounts 8.0 for DOS from Parsons >> Technology. Well, I am still using it even to print checks. I would like >> to do all this in linux so I don't have to reboot back to DOS. Any >> accounting programs available in linux that are blind friendly? >> >> Oh, does anybody remember Charlie Crawford's talking checkbook program? >> That used to be available from www.empowermentzone.com? I have this one >> too, but it is DOS. But, it was freeware. Q. Has this program been ported >> to linux? If anybody knows how to get in touch with Charlie Crawford, >> please let him know that a linux port would be useful to many of his >> fellow blind friends. Any ideas, listers? >> >> >> -- >> Bill Gaughan >> wgaughan@snet.net >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >