Norman and Others, Thanks for the info. I want to tell Rudy that I do have a cochlear implant, but I can't understand speech, though it is very good for environmental sounds. Apparently I don't have either talkd or internetd running. In fact, my Redhat installation doesn't even seem to have telnetd. Where can I get it from? Write works fine. Most of the machines here run Windows, which does have a telnet client, so I think the first step would be to get telnetd running on my machine? How do I do this? Thanks, John On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Norman B. Robinson wrote: > Well, if you can run your own talk server can they use the talk command > to contact you? (if they are running linux they should have it available) > > If they are using Windows you might consider something like the Yahoo > Instant Messenger (or better yet GAIM as it works with multiple internet > messengers) > > Information about talkd can be found at: > http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/talkd8.html > or use your local "man talkd" command. > > GAIM can be found at: > http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ > > Yahoo! IM can be found at: > http://messenger.yahoo.com/ > > Be well, > > Norman > > John J. Boyer wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I am deaf-blind and use my computer to communicate with others in my > >organization. Normally, people can type on the computer keyboard while I > >am running a text editor such as nano and what they type appears > >immediately on my braille display through brltty. I can also type on my > >braille Lite and it appears immediately on the screen. However, my office > >is on the second floor and we have some people in wheelchairs. It would be > >very nice if they could communicate in the same way from their computers > >over our LAN. I could set up an account on my machine and they could > >telnet to it, but how would I know what they are typing, and how would > >they receive what I type? Is there a program that root can use to see a > >user's screen and type onto it? > > > >Thanks, > >John > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list