Oops! Sory, sent a practice message to the list, ignore this please!!! Gene >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 > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
