If the person uses the 250 MB capacity Zipdisks, it would not be a problem, but the older 100MB ones ... On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > 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 at ycardz.com> > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
