Hi Janina. Long ago, in a gallaxy far far away, I was reading about the server edition of Word Perfect, which claimed to have the text console version included as a part of the server package for $449 or some such. I was reading about this on linuxmall.com, I believe. Gene >Hi, Gene: > >We have tried to talk via our existing channels with Corel without >success. My next move is simply to write the President which I will be >doing next week. Part of the annoyance is that I can't find their text >product anywhere on the net. If it's still an active product, I can't find >it. Every reference I get is to the gui version. >It would still be useful to find who is selling the text based product, if >anyone. It would still be useful to try to work up the sales chain if >there is such a product still at Corel. Else, it's kind of a last ditch to >write the President. > >I will advise. > > On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, >Gene Collins wrote: > >> Hello Janina and all. I am using the same synthesizer for both the >> dosemu and speakup sessions. In order to get this to work, you need to >> edit your Speakup source code, and comment out the lines in your driver >> source code that register the serial device. Again, if you don't know >> what you are doing and it breaks because you commented out the wrong >> code, or mangled the file in some other way, you get to keep all the >> pieces. Having Speakup not register the devices it will use is * NOT * >> approved of as standard kernel policy. If this works for you, great! >> If it doesn't, like I said, you keep all the pieces. My guess is that >> Kirk and Jim probably aren't interested in answering questions about >> altering the source code to allow sharing of the serial port between >> Speakup and external applications. It's my intention to try an >> experiment with dosemu and the /dev/synthe device later this weekend to >> see whether that works or not. If it does, great. If not, well, the >> /dev/synthe device is still under development, and we'll just have to >> wait and see whether it's possible to make this work or not. >> >> Speaking of Word Perfect, Janina, did you ever hear anything from the >> fine folks at Corel about whether they would be willing to sell their >> console version of Word Perfect separately? I seem to remember that you >> were going to ask them about this at one time. Perhaps you said >> something about this in the past, and I either missed it, or more >> likely, just don't remember. (smile). >> >> Gene >> >> >On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Gene Collins wrote: >> > >> >> Janina was commenting earlier about running full-screen DOS programs >> >> like Word Perfect 5.1 and the like with ASAP. I run ASAP with my dosemu >> >> sessions all the time, and use such programs as the ONLINE BIBLE, >> >> FOXPRO, etc. with no problem. Of course, I am using a serial synth, a >> >> LiteTalk, and not a built-in synth like the DoubleTalk. >> > >> > >> >Very glad to hear this works, and very grateful for your clear and consice >> >instructions on how to get dosemu working with this kind of cunctionality. >> > >> >Question: >> > >> >Are you using the same synth in dosemu that you use with speakup? Or is it >> >a separate synth? >> > >> >One more thing: If we can now find a way to read .wpd files -- the newer >> >WordPerfect file format, we'd have something very powerful here. I have >> >Corel WordPerfect for linux on CDR, but do not have it installed >> >currently. I expect there's a binary and libraries there somewhere that >> >would provide downgrading .wpd to the older wp format used by WordPerfect >> >5.1. Those utilities also provide access to other formats such as M$ >> >Word's .doc. It would be very helpful, imho, if we could access these >> >functions via command line in linux. At least, I know I'd find this >> >useful, but I think other people would like this as well. >> > >> >Is anyone interested in working on this? I think I can legitimately >> >provide the application for this purpose. >> > >> > >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >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 >> > >-- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > >Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > >Chair, Accessibility SIG >Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) >http://www.openebook.org > >Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, >Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.html > >Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther >King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at >http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp > >Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/technology/accessa pp.html > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
