On 28.07.2009 at 17:10:46 james collins <james.collins75 at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I am a speakup newbie. I own a MacBook pro laptop running mac os x > 10.5.7 I think. I was just wondering if I could use speakup with this > computer, from what I know the mac os is a version of unix. Is the OS Leppard? If so, why don't you use Voiceover? > I want to > use speakup at the command line, there is a program called terminal on > my laptop and when I open it it opens a unix shell > I think. I doubt that this will succeed, but I don't know exactly. > I just > wondered if I could configure speakup to work on my laptop or do I > have to be running Linux, also I wondered if there is a big difference > between Linux and unix. Any help would be appreciated. > I fear you have to use a natural Linux. MacOS is based on Unix, but this does not mean, that they are identical. I wonder if I'm wrong. Hermann