It gives shell access on nonlinux machines. I just am not too fond of gui telnet as the speak all mode repeats stuff, like Login; bharding login bharding password: Password Last login , and so on. It gets annoying to hear a few lines above the command I enter when I hit enter on it, but my modem needs kernel 2.4.x and i'm having a friend download and burn me redhat 7.1 with speakup on CD from the saitech site. Until then, cygwin is the closest thing to real linux there is. At 11:17 AM 10/4/01 -0500, you wrote: >What is it exactly? What does it do? > >On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Janina Sajka wrote: > >> Cygwin is a PC Console application. So, if you can, use your DOS screen >> reader and a hardware synth--vocal-eyes or asap with your Doubletalk. >> There's nothing gui about cygwin, it's straight bash prompt all the way! >> <grin> >> >> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Brent Harding wrote: >> >> > Where can I get set files for Wineyes to use cygwin? I know window-eyes >> > doesn't read this type of stuff real well, and I'm stuck using windows >> > until I get linux installed with kernel 2.4.x anyway. The weird part was >> > that the box that my modem came in said it was controller based, but it >> > uses com5, and ttyS4 won't initialize with it. I would've kept my isa >> > modem, but only have one slot where the double talk is, and thought a Pci >> > modem would be easier to get than a Pci synthesizer, at least for linux use >> > anyways. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > >> > Blinux-list@redhat.com >> > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> > >> >> > >-- >Notice! My email address has changed to: <ldavis@shellworld.net>. >You may also still reach me at: <luke@tacticus.com>. >The address of: <ldavis@voicenet.com> should no longer be considered valid. > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >