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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1@xxxxxxx>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: speakup 1.0 and slackware 8.0
> If you get the iso, you don't need the 2 floppy images as they are on the
cd itself.
> Greg
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 03:44:16PM -0500, Keith Creasy wrote:
> > I found slackware 8.0 and the talking installation disk images by going
to
> > www.slackware.com/getslack and choosing one of the FTP mirrors. I think
it
> > was sunsite.
> >
> > there was a text file in the slackware 8.0 directory that described how
to
> > download and install slackware 8.0 with speakup. Basically I downloaded
> > the slackware 8.0 ISO, the slackware.i boot image, and the color.gz root
> > diske image.
> >
> > One thing I overlooked the first time I tried it was that you have to
> > enter a command to get speakup to find your synthesizer awhen you boot
> > with the diskette. When the diskette stops I had to enter "ramdisk
> > speakup_synth=dtlk". this enabled it to talk through my doubletalk card.
> > The rest of the installation was pretty much the normal series of steps.
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > Keith
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Reinhard Stebner wrote:
> >
> > > > Slackware 8 does come with talking boot disks and kernel.
> > >
> > > The only thing I found on the speakup web site was slackware 7.1 with
> > > speaking boot disks. Am I missing something?
> > >
> > > Thank you so much for your help it means a lot to me. Here are some
more
> > > newbee questions. Could someone please explain how the man page
works? (by
> > > taking a man page and saying what all of the [] {} and <> mean in
context?
> > >
> > > How dows one read one screen at a time instead of one line at a time?
> > >
> > > Is there a way to copy that page and save it and then braille out than
man
> > > page?
> > >
> > > Is there any way to have a braille device working with speakup?
> > >
> > > Where can I find more docs on the proper feeding and care of my new
os?
> > >
> > > What about speakup (see last quesion).
> > >
> > > How hard is it to find documentation on programming un unix/linux?
> > > Is it quite differant from programming under dos?
> > >
> > > Final quesion, what are some do and don'ts when comming to:
> > >
> > > 1) installing and setting up the os
> > > 2) running the os
> > > 3) upgrading
> > > 4) speakups limitations when comming to the operating this os?
> > >
> > > Thank you once again for your willingness to help me out.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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