voiceover reads terminal windows, it just isn't very efficient at it. for instance, if content is coming in and speech is interrupted, it does not automatically restart. It is also necessary to use the voiceover cursor to read the windows because arrows do other things in terminal like move through the history of commands. On Jul 28, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Joseph C. Lininger wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Good afternoon, It makes more sense to answer your last question before your first one, so that's what I've done here. > also I wondered if there is a big difference between > Linux and unix. Any help would be appreciated. Any more there really is no specific operating system called "Unix". At one point, the name Unix refered to a version of Unix developed by AT&T, but these days Unix refers to a group of operating systems derived from or based on the original. Linux is one of these operating systems. Others are Apple's OSX, all flavors of BSD, and several others. > I was just wondering if I could use speakup with this computer, from > what I know > the mac os is a version of unix. 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 just wondered if I could configure speakup to work on my > laptop or do > I have to be running Linux, Speakup works directly with the Linux kernel to provide speach. Therefore, it won't work on any Unix variant other than Linux. If you want, you could dual boot and use Linux on your MAC, at which point speakup would work. There are also user space (as opposed to kernel space) screen access solutions that might help you with OSX. Does the built-in screen reader distributed with OSX not read terminal windows? Joe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJKb2fYAAoJEMh8jNraUiwq7HEH/3asKojsBRYgldw4kdjRw4hr 7xf6zAjfLPAIudGY/qJZ5pN2eHJAbCePezb2D1l+RkMOwWjakCiZo8u8n4oxQRkU zOpIDwflt0heZjQncBMuaKB8WJd2JuV75+R3IpkrWjRS8LIVBLed6Qh/A4frVDSv erBYq5JSYe9kCuRr8NLMvNpgz7Nsak4cs3IfKb3EQueTvZwl1sv37ykHSpjhBRm+ 5leR5VZ1ebgBTEtX1R3D5YpENYD0wMJsCGx7s937o5v5+UXTKMMfszYdxzukWXJz CQoO7jtJBR6uqxkhl8cZXSFnaTVs9ajnlLOxnjfeXGplAXSJBoB6xrpmXwk5aKA= =wFyz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
