Does the asap demo pretty much work like speakup for editing? I suppose with ve, it's got cursor keys mixed up, so when I arrow around left and right fast enough it repeats the letter, but linux telnet with speakup edits like linux at physical console. VE still works when timed out, although you lose review mode and the like, but paying huge for dos support kind of sucks too. At 02:39 PM 10/14/01 -0400, you wrote: >Two suggestions: > >1.) Since you're using a demo of Vocal-Eyes, and not a registered >copy, why not go get the asap demo from http://www.microtalk.com? It works >well with PC Console apps without tweaks; > >2.) Try turning Revector checking on in Vocal-Eyes. Do: > Ctrl-Backslash to enter the VE Control Panel; > Arrow to Option 5 -- General > Arrow to Option 13 -- Advanced > Arrow to Option 3 -- Revector > >It will be off by default. Turn it on. It will tell you that you need to >reboot after using VE with this setting turned on, but that's not a >problem when running in a DOS Window under Windows because you can just >exit the DOS session and restart--something you probably mean to do >anyway. > > > On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Brent >Harding wrote: > >> I've been using cygwin a little while, I find it hard to edit files, the >> demo of vocal-eyes I have doesn't track the screen well, tried windows >> telnet, equally not good, but cygwin responds a little better. >> At 11:49 AM 10/13/01 -0400, you wrote: >> >On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Martin G. McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote: >> > >> >> I have been behind on reading Email this Summer, but I >> >> just read the discussion concerning FreeBSD. This is a little >> >> off-topic because FreeBSD isn't Linux, but it is open-source, >> >> free, and very robust. This last Summer, I installed FreeBSD-4.3 >> >> on four IBM Netfinity servers. It took me a bit to get the hang >> >> of the process, but it is extremely blind-friendly if your system >> >> has at least one serial port and that port functions as Com1. >> >Thanks a lot for your report; that's very interesting. >> >> >> >> >> >> FreeBSD is just another fine open-source choice we have. >> >> I think it has much better security by default than Linux does, >> >> but Linux can be quite secure if you take the time to make it >> >> that way. >> >Well, actually, let's not forget that linux is just the kernel; security >> >level varies greatly between the different distributions. Also, >> distributions >> >like Redhat who are trying to become more user friendly can't quite do so >> >without sacrificing security a little. I think the level of security by >> >default also does differ amongst the different BSD based OSes anyway. >> >> >> >> Anyway, I figured I would share my experiences with the >> >> rest of the list regarding FreeBSD. >> >Again, thank you for doing so. >> >> >> >> I probably should amend what I said at the first. If >> >> you have a Windows P.C. and JAWS or any of the other Windows >> >> screen readers, that will also work fine to communicate with the >> >> FreeBSD system's serial port. Your Windows terminal program >> >> should emulate a VT100 and the Comm port needs to be 9600, N, 8 >> >> and 1 in order to work with the remote console built in to the >> >> FreeBSD installation disk. >> >Hey, you've forgotten linux! :) You could easily use a linux box with >> minicom >> >to access the target machine... >> >> >> >> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK >> >> OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations Group >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> >> >> Blinux-list@redhat.com >> >> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> > >> > >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> > >> >Blinux-list@redhat.com >> >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> > >> > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Blinux-list@redhat.com >> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> > >-- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > >Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > >Chair, Accessibility SIG >Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) >http://www.openebook.org > >Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, >Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp > >Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther >King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at >http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp > >Learn how to make accessible software at >http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >