Hi, I think freedom scientific still has a copy of the Jaws for Dos shareware on their site. If not I'll send you a copy of the shareware version, and it might help solve the zipspeak problem. http://www.freedomscientific.com I used it quite a bit myself in looking for errors in loadlin. On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Angelo Sonnesso wrote: > where did you find those files? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Ward" <tward at bright.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 5:24 PM > Subject: Re: Making progress > > > > Hi, if you have an old dos screen reader such as Jaws For Dos or Vocal > Eyes > > you can load that before running loadlin and that usually worked in > getting > > error messages > > spoken. However, if it is a kernel panic error of some kind or an error > > encountered after your machine loads Linux you will need to get those > errors > > with sited assistance assuming that Speakup hasn't loaded. > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Glenn Ervin" <gervin at kdsi.net> > > To: "linux - speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 12:14 AM > > Subject: Making progress > > > > > > > Hello group, > > > I downloaded zipslack.zip. > > > I have a removable drive D:, and I unzipped it into that drive. > > > I have downloaded many speakup files and I have put them into the > d:\linux > > > directory. > > > This harddrive is a little over 200MB. > > > I am using a DECtalk express on Comm1. > > > I also edited the linux.bat file to have one of the lines to read: > > > d:\linux\loadlin > > > I rebooted into DOS and ran linux.bat and it ran for a few seconds, and > it > > > may have been ready to work, but I could not know what was on the > screen. > > > Question: > > > How do I tell it to recognize the DECtalk on Com1? > > > I hope I do not have to use sighted assistance to get this going. > > > I look forward to any input. > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > O. Glenn Ervin-- (Lenny) N0YJV > > > Northeast Nebraska > > > gervin at kdsi.net > > > or My Work e-mail: > > > gervin at ncbvi.state.ne.us > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 >
