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No, there's a real, honest to Windows, setup.exe file. I can email it if 
you like. It's about 237 Mb. I'm sorry I don't have the uri for where I 
got it immediately at hand. I came across it while doing the SSH on 
Windows evaluations for ACB earlier this week.

The installer is quite accessible. There are one or two screens where I 
lost focus and had to Alt-TAB my way around the open apps in order to 
continue. You get a list of ftp/http mirrors to select from for the 
installation. As you can imagine, installing 215 Mb over the net isn't a 
quick job. I have a 1.5 Mb ADSL connection and my install took around 
10-12 minutes.
 On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Brent Harding wrote:

> Does it actually have an install program to it, or is it a bunch of .exe
> files you just unzip? I have a double talk pc with a demo of vocal-eyes,
> never used dos much to justify paying big for a screen reader for it, but
> will the executable .exe files I compile with cygwin run without bash
> going, sounds cool if I had cron capability in Windows until I get linux
> going again.
> At 09:05 AM 10/4/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >You really should be using a DOS screen reader with a hardware synth while
> >Cygwin is running.  But if you can't do that, try running the RXVT program
> >after starting Cygwin's BASH shell (the default installation).  This makes
> >the Cygwin screen look like a Windows screen to Window-Eyes.  I haven't
> >succeeded in getting Window-Eyes to recognize the caret (Cygwin's cursor as
> >displayed by RXVT), but doing a "route mouse pointer" operation puts the
> >Window-Eyes mouse pointer at the Cygwin cursor position.  By default, you
> >have a screen of about 50 lines and more than 140 characters wide in
> >RXVT/Cygwin.  I made an RXVT.000 set file, but it doesn't do anything
> >special except make the entire RXVT window a Speak window.  
> >
> >Shutting the stuff down can be a trip.  You have to type Exit in RXVT, and
> >then again in your DOS box, which you find from the task bar.  I could
> >probably fix this by refining my batch files a little.
> >
> >At 09:15 PM 10/3/01 -0500, you 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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