Hmmm, but do you have to install this into the complete cygwin package, or where does the file that makes the port come from since Windows doesn't have /dev? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane W" <shane-speakup@xxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:51 AM Subject: Re: [OT] emulating a hardware synth > Hi, > > You need to use com0com to create a virtual serial port > pare. Either that or as the parent suggested, connect a > machine via null-modem and do the speakup install that way, > no vmware required. *shrug* I didn't know about this > echo-talk. It's never come up here afaik. > > Shane > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 08:41:31AM -0600, Brent Harding wrote: >> So, do you just use this on an untaken serial port and tell VMWare to >> also use that serial port so they would end up virtually connected? I >> thought there was one called echo talk or something using the JFW API on >> the Windows side and simulating an echo synth to whatever is connected to >> that port. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane W" <shane-speakup at csy.ca> >> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." >> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 12:45 AM >> Subject: Re: [OT] emulating a hardware synth >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Fyi, just put a new version of the Windows Acntsa emulator >>> up: >>> <http://www.csy.ca/~shane/winaccent.zip> >>> >>> This one gets the timeouts right so now works with Speakup >>> either under an Vmware session or via a remote serial >>> connection. >>> >>> Question to the speakup devs, why does the ACNTSA driver >>> use a timeout of 0.16 seconds and rely on that to start >>> transmitting even during keyboard io where you want to >>> transmit as soon as a key is pressed, Ie with <esc>=F in >>> the init string and 0x0d when a key is pressed. That way >>> there is no 0.14 second delay after a key is pressed before >>> the letter is read allowed? >>> >>> Shane >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
