I currently have it on a 250 mb zip disk, and it works fine. Greg > ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Saqib Shaikh" <ss at saqibshaikh.com >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca >Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 06:41:52 +0100 >Subject: Re: Zipspeak Site Unavailable >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
