On 15 Jun 2001, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Hi Anne: You are right, except I haven't figured out how to express > the problem as question and answer. Maybe someone else can help with > that. > > We have two problems which come up fairly often with new prospective > speakup users: Rawriting a bad disk because the users screen reader > got in the way; and not selecting the correct way to download in > Internet Explorer. > > The first situation with rawrite is because rawrite.exe is a timing > based copy program and most screen readers use interrupts to assure > they get their fair share or more of the processor. Usually all you > need do is quiet speech while the copy is taking place. > > In the case of Internet Explorer, it assumes that all links are text > and thus replaces 0x0d characters with 0x0d0a. In other words adding > an appropriate line feed. Unfortunately, in the process of adding > line feeds to a binary program you really screw up the instruction > set. So even if you rawrite the file correctly the downloading > process fucked up the image. this is essentially true kirk. however, if you do as I mentioned in an earlier posting and use the ftp prefix to connect to a server, you won't get the problem of bad images. for arguments sake, let's assume I want to get the checkout script from the speakup ftp server. here's how I would approach it. I would launch internet explorer, press ctrl+o for the open dialog then enter in the following: ftp://linux-speakup.org/pub/speakup the anonymous login and sending the email as a password is taken care of by ie. however, having said that, sometimes there is something wrong with the initial transfer of data and I find that a backspace to the next directory up usually solves the problem. > > There is an option in I.E. under one of the menus, maybe file, which > will download the file without translating. I do not use windows so I > can't tell you what the correct set of steps is for Internet > Explorer. Hopefully, someone else here will volunteer that procedure. > Shaun.. "We realise we have a problem with communication. However, we're not going to discuss it with our staff." EMAIL: shauno at goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435 YAHOO ID: blindman01_2000 IRC NICK/SERVER: |3|1ndm4n on #aussiefriends on www.jong.com:6667 > Kirk > > -- > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
