Yeah, I like that Linux can have speach from powerup to shutdown. In winblows, You can get bootup errors, and not know what they are. When I suspect there is a problem, I don't bother get sited help. Just yank out the plug, curs a few times, and try again. It's winblows, What can you expect! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Myrow" <myrow@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 6:41 PM Subject: Re: interesting experiment. > A well-known trick to get old DOS screen readers to work in a DOS console > under Windows 9X is to add "switches=/c" to your config.sys and of course, > reboot. I've never seen that switch documented by Microsoft, but I've > seen it mentioned in several DOS games that came out after Windows 95. I > even remember reading a press release for ASAP bragging that you wouldn't > need to use "switches=/c" with ASAP because it was so advanced. Doubt any > of those screen readers work with Win XP or 2K. However, Speakup works > with several Linux distros, and is the only screen reader to provide > speech from power up to shut down. It is free, too! Despite my previous > grumbles about it not having certain features, it's still the best free > screen reader for any platform IMHO. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
