Using a speak-up boot disk should be a workable solution. Also, keep in mind that a non-kernel-based screen reader such as yasr requires access to the tts device such as the serial or parallel port, and you would probably not have such access by default, but hopefully the lab administrator could give it to you if you explained your situation. I have always avoided needing to log into lab machines directly, which probably would have been impossible anyway since the machines in the Unix labs (with the exception of some machines in the ECE department) are X-terminals used to log into a server. I have a notebook and was able to get the Network Operations people to install an extra network drop in the labs that I needed to be in so that I could connect my laptop and use it to log into a server. So you may be able to do this if you have a notebook. In any case, most of the cs classes that I've taken haven't had labs; only a few of the introductory classes did. Hope this helps. --Michael Gorse, WPI Cs '01 / ICQ:22583968 / http://www.wpi.edu/~mgorse/ -- If you're an oister, then don't let your perl get away from you.
