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I was wondering, but how would the braille chording map to linux stuff? I
suppose for starters, I'd try a braille note qt. 
At 04:27 PM 1/3/02 -0500, you wrote:
>uhhh sure it will, ... or at least it's processor will...
>
>isn't there w way to get to the wince level of things so any of the mips
>based flash management utilities could easily back up and replace what's
>living inside the thing now?
>
>J
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com
>[mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Mike Pedersen
>Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 10:37 PM
>To: blinux-list@redhat.com
>Subject: RE: Fw: [braillenote] brailleNote access to linux]
>
>
>Hi, I don't think that Larry was trying to imply that PDI in's self
>developed the driver.  As someone who contributed to getting the
>braillenote working smoothly with brailletty I asked Dave if I could get
>the info out to the braillenote list.  I forwarded the brailletty info
>to Larry so that we could get the information out to all of the
>braillenote users who run Linux.  In answer to another question, no the
>braillenote will not run Linux.
>
>regards
>Mike Pedersen
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]
>On Behalf Of lobap@adaptech.net
>Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 5:40 PM
>To: blinux list
>Subject: Re: Fw: [braillenote] brailleNote access to linux]
>
>
>Hi all:
>
>To be presize, Dave Mielke is not only the maintainer of this
>project but he himself with the assistance of group of other
>users developed the actual driver to support BN under Linux.
>Although, Linux and BrailleNote users appreciate PulsData willingness to
>
>give Dave and his friends access to their product documentation, Mr.
>Mielke and other BrailleNote users were behind the creation of this
>driver.
>
>Thank you Dave, Sebastien and everybody who was involved into it.
>
>Regards,
>Pawel.
>
> On Wed, 2 Jan
>2002, David Poehlman wrote:
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1@uic.edu>
>> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 5:23 PM
>> Subject: fw: [braillenote] brailleNote access to linux]
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I thought some of you might find the below interesting and perhaps
>> usefull. Greg
>>
>>
>> ----- Forwarded message from "Larry L. Lewis, Jr."
>> <l.lewis@mindspring.com> -----
>>
>> From: "Larry L. Lewis, Jr." <l.lewis@mindspring.com>
>> To: "BrailleNote discussion list" <braillenote@lyris.pulsedata.co.nz>
>> Cc: "Rick Plescia" <RAPlescia@aol.com>,
>>    "Judy and Larry McCreary" <ruf@cris.com>,
>>    "Jim Sullivan" <jimsullivan27@earthlink.net>,
>>    "Ed Smith" <esmith01@concentric.net>,
>>    "Dominic Gagliano" <dominicg@concentric.net>,
>>    "Matt Ater" <mater@4access.com>,
>>    "HumanWare Home Office Staff" <Staff@humanware.com>,
>>    "Kim Burgess" <burgess@humanware.com>,
>>    "HumanWare Management Team" <hwimgrs@humanware.com>,
>>    "HumanWare Distributors" <HWIdist@humanware.com>
>> Subject: [braillenote] brailleNote  access to linux
>> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 16:36:06 -0500
>>
>> Braille Access to Linux
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> Over the past year or so there has been a bit of interest by the North
>
>> American market to have some degree of Linux access with the
>> BrailleNote family of products.  Many of you are familiar with Braille
>
>> TTY, a Linux-based Braille screenreader which provides access to a
>> Linux box. The Pulse Data Group is pleased to announce the arrival of
>> a Braille TTY driver
>> for the BrailleNote family of products.  This driver enables the user
>of
>> the
>> BrailleNote to access a Linux Box using his/her BrailleNote as a
>Braille
>> display.  It should be noted that firstly, this version of Braille TTY
>> is
>> still in Public Beta and should be released shortly.  Secondly,
>Braille
>> TTY
>> is a free downloadable program.  What this means is that if you choose
>> to
>> use this software, you do so with the understanding that HumanWare nor
>> any
>> other agent of the PDI Group will be offering technical assistance for
>> you
>> to install or use this driver.  This is typically the practice by all
>> mainstream and adaptive technology companies when its customers opt to
>> use
>> downloadable "freeware", although HumanWare does support to some
>degree
>> its
>> customers' usage of Microsoft's ActiveSync utility.
>>
>> HumanWare has invested resources into ensure that this driver is
>> developed to present to you, the BrailleNote customer, additional
>> flexibility with this product line.
>>
>>
>> the Braille tty project can be found at:
>> > http://mielke.cc/brltty
>> > From this location select the download link and download the 2.99z
>> beta.
>> > This beta has support for both the Braille 18 and 32 cell models as
>> > well as the Braille qt models.  This download contains all sources
>> > and documentation.  The project maintainer is Dave  mielke
>> > <http://mielke.cc/brltty> , dave@mielke.cc.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> With Regards,
>> Larry L. Lewis, Jr.
>> Blindness Products Manager,
>> HumanWare Inc.
>> A Pulse Data International Company
>> Phone:  216-381-8106; 800-722-3393, Extension 423
>> E-Mail:  lewis@humanware.com
>> Visit HumanWare on the web at http://www.humanware.com
>> ftp site: ftp.humanware.com/humanware
>>
>>
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