Hi, if you want apps for Zipspeak go to the slackware site, and download the slackware packages from there fpt site. It works with all the slackware distributions. They have a folder called aps1, get that, also get d1, and n1, and e1. On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Jared wrote: > I've done the man command and just by looking at some of the stuff its > helped. This install was about a 30 meg download and I didn't find a lot of > docs. When I did the man command followed by vi I didn't get anything but > saw the vi text editor refferenced in the man entry on shutdown. What does > this mean? > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Toby Fisher > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 8:29 PM > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: Where to go now > > > On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Jared wrote: > > > Hello I got zipspeak from the ftp sight since after messing arround with > > partitions and not setting the write one active I didn't get redhat > > installed. I think I will use zipspeak for a little while and install > debian > > on my 4 gig d drive since it is smaller then redhat if I like it. My > > question is where to go for doccumentation on the packiges included. I've > > been listening to the look at linux series on acb radio and that has > helped > > but where do I go for stuff like how to use the vi text editor? Also if > > someone could help me out with where to get emacs and the voice engines > for > > software speack I'd appreciate it. > > Okay, well I'll start at the end. > > I'm not really an expert on Emacs etc, but Emacs itself, you'd probably be > best to get it from the Slackware ftp site, since you've already installed > Zipspeak, thisshould minimise any compatibility issues etc. As for speech > engines etc, your best bet is probably to take a look on freshmeat.net, if > you put emacs or emacs-speak into the search engine you should have some > joy. > This is one thing I'd recommend for anything you need to find, even > documentation, as freshmeat will often guide you to a package's web site > which will contain the latest information. > > Also, for more general documentation on a range of Linux issues, try > http://www.linuxdoc.org > > In addition, I don't know about Zipspeak because I've not used it, but on > my system /usr/doc has loads and loads of directories for individual > packages, as well as 2 great ones called Linux-HOWTOs and > Linux-mini-HOWTOs (note the capitalisation). Last, but definitely not > least, you can always try typing man <command>. > > Hope this helps. > > -- > Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk > Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 > ICQ: #61744808 > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
