On Mon, 20 May 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: <snip> > Do you know how to tell without speech whether or not you're at a > command line prompt? If you press back space and the speaker > beeps, you're there. If not, you aren't. Hmmm, this is true, but once again, this may not work in a telnet session if your terminal isn't set right, quite likely under Winblows, but at least there you'll have your Winblows speech to help you. > Of course, if you've typed something on the command line, you'll > have to press back space that many times to erase what you've > typed first. But, once you've erased the command line, you will > get a beep from the speaker when you press backspace. Again, if the telnet client's terminal is broken, this functionality could also be absent. <snip> -- 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
