Hi all, especially Braille display users: Some time ago I offered for comment a program I dreamed up to practice my bash coding and to fill what I see as a crying need for a good display mechanism for Braille files and for keeping track of how far I've read in print documentation as well. At the time the program was called bb. I stressed that I had little confidence in the aesthetics of my coding (though it did work) and asked if people could look at it and tell me what they thought. The response was thunderous silence. :-) I'm now ready to try again. I have much more confidence in the beauty of my code, have renamed the program to btv since there's already something called bb (though I don't know what it is), and believe this is ready, or nearly so, for prime time. I'd still like people to look at it but believe it will perform adequately in just about all situations. What it does is this: 1. Displays a file by page if there are formfeeds or by screen if there aren't. 2. Translates Braille characters into 6-dot equivalents so the user doesn't have to set 6-dot mode and zap the contraction table to read a contracted Braille file. It doesn't do this for print files! 3. Keeps track of where you left off so you can start at that point the next time you read the file. 4. Allows you to invoke less for searching and $EDITOR for changing the file. 5. Contains a utility for repairing faulty DOS files (Captains Courageous on Web-Braille is a case in point) whose end-of-page sequences are faulty. 6. It has documentation. I'm sure people interested in reading books online must have some system for doing so, but I think you might enjoy this one as well. it's in a 10K .tgz file which you can unpack somewhere on the path (~/bin is a good place) and you're all set. Even if you don't see the need as I do, please let me know if you're interested and I'll send it along. If it's half as good as I think it is (which is probably about right), it'll come in handy. Write me at leemer1@xxxxxxxxxx Thanks, Lee _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list