This might be a liitle off topic, but I was wondering I downloaded yasr off the yasr website. I am kind of a unix newbie, I am used to running ms-dos. The file I downloaded is a .tar file. I looked on google and the command to unpack a .tar file is tar xvf filename.tar so to unpack the yasr file I would open terminal my unix command line application, navigate to my downloads folder. Find the file I downloaded which is called yasr-0.6.9.tar and at the command prompt type tar xvf yasr-0.6.9.tar and my computer should unpack the .tar file, does that sound right? I am wondering I want to use the yasr screen reader at the command line in terminal on my mac. Is there a special place where I would want to unpack the yasr .tar file? I want to be able to use the screen reader anywhere on my computer, i.e. any directory that I switch to on my hard drive. Anyway that would just unpack the file I still have to install it right? But I figured I would take it one step at a time, like I have to figure out where my serial port on my mac is, and I also have to get a cable and cable adaptor for my speech synthesizer which is a doubletalk but like I said I am trying to do it in steps. Any help would be appreciated. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 28, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com> wrote: > Hello, > I don't think you will get speakup working on MacOS (whatever > version you are using). Speakup is built for the linux kernel and > so is quite specific to linux (it won't work on many other unix > systems eg. solaris, freebsd, etc). The only way I can imagine you > will get speakup working is to install linux on the Mac (may it be > either as a dual boot or to replace MacOS), but I don't think that > is what you wanted. > > Anyway something which might help you, there are a few other screen > readers for unix text terminals, the one which comes to mind is YASR > which I think works on a number of different unix systems (it works > on other systems as it doesn't integrate so tightly with the systems > kernel). Another alternative, although more orientated for Braille > display support is brltty. > > As suggested by Hermann, if your Mac is running Leopard then why not > use voiceover, unless you are planning to move to linux. > > Michael Whapples > On -10/01/37 20:59, james collins 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. 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, also I wondered if there >> is a big difference between Linux and unix. Any help would be >> appreciated. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
