Unless slackware would take it upon themselves to add speakup and the few other modifications into zipslack to make it compatible with zipspeak, then yes, there still is a reason why zipspeak should be maintained separately. Greg On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 09:08:01AM -0400, Patrick Turnage wrote: > Hello > I believe zipspeak is a modified version of zipslack from slackware. > Zipslack is a version of slackware Linux with a minimul set of applications > and is installed in to a Ums-dos file system, this allows you to extract > the zip file and then run Linux with out having to repartition your hard > drive. I am not certain exactly how zipspeak differs from zipslack in what > is installed but zipspeak has been preconfigured to work with speakup. I > wonder though with slackware including speakup by default is there a reason > to maintain the zipspeak distribution? > Patrick > > > > ------------------------- > Patrick Turnage > e-mail:pturnage at tampabay.rr.com > Telephone: (850) 459-7717 > HomePage: http://www.access-connect.com > Amateur radio callsign:kg4dqk > AOL Instant Messenger:kg4dqk > icq:26862191 > MSN:turnagep at hotmail.com > Yahoo!:kg4dqk > America Online:kg4dqk1129 kg4dqk1129 at aol.com > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup