However, as long as you put thedependent dll files somewhere your screen reader can find them it might work. I had a problem some months back with a copy of JFW, and I managed to badger Freedom Scientific into giving me the name of the dependancy dll files so I didn't have to upgrade Internet Explorer everytime they got a whim to update. So there is a chance, although slim, that wine could support a screen reader. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason" <unleet@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 12:10 PM Subject: Re: Lindows preview. > OK, here's the deal on "lindows" > It uses "Wine", a "Windows compatability layer" for linux. Wine requires X. > My best guess is that JAWS for windows won't run under Wine. I don't have a > copy to test with myself, but knowing what I do about the way Wine seperates > programs from each other quite a bit more than Windows does I doubt the > needed "common ground" that JAWS depends on would be present. > > Oh yeah, as an aside, the version of Wine that lindows will ship with is > modified slightly; it contains significantly better support for DirectX and > OpenGL than the regular version of Wine. > > On a completely unrelated note, it could be possible to write a version of > Wine that doesn't use X and simply dumps text to a console for speakup, or > whatever else, to read. No, I'm not volunteering for that project :-P > But if anytone happens to want to start a project to hack X and the relevent > toolkit libraries into accessible submission, I'll join, I've even got the > beginnings of a structure worked out for all of it. > > (hmmm.... this e-mail got a lot longer than I intended) > > On Tuesday November 27, 2001 02:35 am, you wrote: > > the same question occurred to me too. > > but it also occurred to me that if lindows is able to run both linux and > > windows programs as suggested, would you not be able to run your > > existing windows screen reader as well as speakup? > > of course not at the same time <evil grin> > > I thought that the idea of lindows was to have a thin translation layer > > for interpreting windows stuff. > > at least that's what I remember from what I've seen about it anyway. > > On > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
