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Wow, sounds neat if it works good.
Wonder how much upgrading it takes to get kernel 2.4.19 on zipspeak? I
heard a ton of other stuff has to be updated to do this, compiling the
kernel is probably the easiest of it.
At 02:56 PM 10/4/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I found things worked about as I expected with asap--but I only spent time 
>in bash and in lynx. The lynx.cfg is not screen reader friendly out of the 
>box. But, I did manage to get the necessary tweaks into it and it began to 
>behave as it should. I was pleased, also, to note that it is a relatively 
>recent lynx and comes with SSL support.
>
>Other problem I noticed was path and file - directory separator related -- 
>i.e. a conflict between unix forward slash and DOS backslash. Sometimes, 
>the configs still held forward slashes. But, I must say that I didn't 
>install into the default directory, so I may have mucked it up a bit the 
>first time. I did reinstall pristinely last night to defaults, but I did 
>not yet play with it.
>
>PS: You'll be amusied and I think delighted to discover that it comes with 
>minicom whose documentation says that it is based a lot on telex. A lovely 
>close of the circle there, I think.
>
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Brent Harding 
>wrote:
>
>> Will the dos screen readers navigate OK when using the arrow keys, found it
>> never worked when I used to try it in telix years ago. I suppose, if I want
>> compilers, I have to make the tool chain myself, hope not though.
>> At 11:41 AM 10/4/01 -0400, you 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.
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> 
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>Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
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