Speakup in user space, why or why not?

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Sina, I don't understand the "why" of your question.

You already have emacspeak, speech-dispatcher, and yasr for speech as
user space based access. You So, what's the point?

Sina Bahram writes:
> I thank you all for one fact. I have learned that I need to learn how to
> write emails better.
> 
> I will never, ever again, mention an example!
> 
> Please do not suggest ways of making FreeBSD accessible ... It was an off
> hand comment. I did not imply that FreeBSD is inaccessible because it
> doesn't have SpeakUP on it or anything ... I was simply using it as an
> example.
> 
> I know about BrailleTTY, I know about YASR, and I know about EmacSpeak, and
> some other stuff ... That's not the point of my email though, my friends.
> 
> User space ... That is the question: user space.
> 
> Take care,
> Sina
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Garrett Klein
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 2:40 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: Speakup in user space, why or why not?
> 
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> Another option is using yasr with FreeBSD, after instalation of course. Note
> that I've never actually tried this myself, but in theory it should work.
> 
> Garrett
> 
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 01:34:40PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 02:03:37PM -0400, Sina Bahram wrote:
> > > For example, I want to learn FreeBSD, because a friend of mine has 
> > > been telling me all about it, and I'd like to play around with it.
> > > I would, of course, like to use speakup with it. Could this be possible?
> 
> > 
> > Yes, it could. Netbsd, and probably freebsd as well allows you to 
> > install the system via a serial console. Once that's done, you can use 
> > ssh on a speakup-enabled gnu/linux system to access your freebsd box, 
> > thus being able to use speakup in freebsd (grin). Seriously though, 
> > yes, I know this isn't exactly what you meant, but not having speakup 
> > run in user space is not a big obstacle to using freebsd, provided 
> > that you have at least 2 computers that you can use, one to run 
> > gnu/linux, and the other to run freebsd.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --
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> > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first)
> > 
> > --
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> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > 
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> 
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> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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