something I would love to run linux and not have to make a dule boot last time I ran zipspeak was on win98 and I ran that bad boy from a dos box oh god it was awesome alas I don't have a speech synth that is hardware based no more, well I do but speakup don't support the keynote sa. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:47 PM Subject: Re: zipspeak status > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Yes, the ntfsrw support in stock linux kernels is limited, but you > might want to look at captive-ntfs, for which I forget the web page > for the moment. It does provide full r/w ntfs support, which will still > only > leave the lack of umsdos, or a replacement for it actually. > > Greg > > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:36:23PM -0400, Joshua Lambert wrote: >> "Can you make it nt compatible while you're at it?" <snip> >> Unfortunately, no. Zipspeak runs on top of vfat partitions using the >> umsdos filesystem. And Linux only has limited write support for nt >> partitions currently. >> Also, it will still use the 2.4 kernel as the umsdos filesystem it >> depends >> on has been removed from the kernel as of 2.6.8x I think. No one has >> fixed it in 2.6, so it has been suspended indefinitely. And yes, >> zipspeak >> is open-source. >> Cheers, >> Josh >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> >> !DSPAM:4331fc9d84951971711983! >> >> > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > LocalWords: Sep Lambert nt > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDMf807s9z/XlyUyARAoM3AKDNnDvE8AiKY2NwNxfZJ471fzsvAACeM0tr > n5S8eoNvxXs4dZ62woIPy2g= > =H17C > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.4/108 - Release Date: 9/21/2005 > >
