Toby: My understanding is that he has two machines. Sometimes he uses his Linux box natively. I don't believe it's all telnet sessions. On Wed, 22 May 2002, Toby Fisher wrote: > 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> > > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
