hi victor, i never knew that anyone actually put zipslack onto a zip disk. does it matter that it is 150 mb instead of 100 mb? saqib ----- Original Message ----- From: "Buddy Brannan" <davros@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 10:31 PM Subject: Re: Zipspeak Site Unavailable > Hi Saqib, > > Just a guess, but you won't get Speakup and Emacspeak into > Zipspeak. Reason being: Emacs is to freakin huge, which would make the > distro too large to fit on the target Zip disk media. However, at > least Slack 7.0 had something called "Bigslack", which was a larger > version of Zipslack, including KDE and a bunch of other stuff, all to > reside on a UMSDOS file system as Zipspeak does. Perhaps a Bigspeak > distro could accommodate both Emacspeak and Speakup? Only thing is, we > might wanna get modified Emacspeak servers such as Matt did with the > Doubletalk server that will address /dev/synth so that one synth can > be used for both programs. I suspect you could not bundle in IBM > ViaVoice for Emacspeak in this theoretical version due to licensing > restrictions on ViaVoice. So Matt, are you up for modifying speech > servers? :) > -- > Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV | History is made by stupid people. > Email: davros at ycardz.com | Clever people wouldn't even try. > Phone: (972) 276-6360 | If you want a place in the history books > ICQ: 36621210 | Then do something dumb before you die. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
