How to get this? On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list