Hi, Angus: First, congradulations on getting Red Hat with Speakup working on your computer. Some quick tips: You can mount a vfat partition in Linux. That means that you can make your Windows files readable and writable in a directory under linux, though you cannot execute applications directly. To do so, create a mount point, meaning a directory -- perhaps something like "winfiles" like this: mkdir winfiles Now, you can mount a partition to that directory. First you need to know what partition holds the files you want. Do you know? Is it FAT32? I'll guess that it's the first partition and that you use fat32. Your command becomes: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 winfiles Of course, adjust to conform to the facts on your system. Learn more by reading about mount: man mount Remember, also, that dos2unix is a command for converting dos format text files to unix format: dos2unix [file.name] And there's a unix2dos to go the other way, too. Now, there's great documentation to get you going. The tail end of our HOWTO has some suggestions. Read the section called "Now What?." Also, look at the Red Hat Getting Started Guide at: http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/rhl73.html Remember, the Getting Started Guide will walk you through many tasks. Skip the parts about GNOME and KDE, because you can't use them yet. Go to the parts about shell and command access. Remember, you can have multiple consoles open. This is extremely handy. It's a bit like Alt-TAB in Windows, but better. Use Alt plus any of the first six function keys, F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, and F6, and login. You can go back and forth between these consoles all day long, meaning you can keep the guide op[en in one, while you try things out in another. On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, ADFM wrote: > Janina > > Sorry, I have RedHat speaking with Speakup. I am trying to remember how to move documents from my Windows drive to RedHat. I am trying to remember some UNIX commands like viewing files and directories. I know this is different from the DOS dir command. What I have come up with so far is: > > cp /dev/hda1\Linux\speakup-jfw.map > > Angus MacKinnon > Adaptive Computer Educator, ACE > Web page: http://members.shaw.ca/dabneyadfm > MAILTO:flodabay at hotmail.com > Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc. > http://www.choroideremia.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- 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
