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From: "John J. Boyer" <director@chpi.org>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Accessibility of Redhat 7.2
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:24:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01ce01c16edc$c14a0a40$e08caad8@tds.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003201c16edc$73296e00$2cf60141@cp286066a>

David,
I'm using "easyzip", but can't figure out how to get it to extract the
files. Maybe you could send your utility to me as an attachment at
director@chpi.org
Thanks.
John

Computers to Help People, Inc.
http://www.chpi.org
825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@home.com>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 15:22
Subject: Re: Accessibility of Redhat 7.2


> what are you using to decompress it?  I have a utility that may help.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John J. Boyer" <director@chpi.org>
> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 2:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Accessibility of Redhat 7.2
>
>
> Nicolas,
> Nice to see you on this list. I've just been reading the brltty manual.
> I
> also downloaded the complete brltty package, but what do you know. I'm
> having trouble getting Windows to decompress it, even though the beast
> claims that it can do so.
> Thanks for all your answers and for your work on brltty. It is very
> important for those of us who are deaf as well as blind.
> John
>
>
> Computers to Help People, Inc.
> http://www.chpi.org
> 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicolas Pitre" <nico@cam.org>
> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 14:30
> Subject: Re: Accessibility of Redhat 7.2
>
>
> > On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > I've just been looking at the Redhat site. They make a lot of the
> GUI in
> > > Redhat 7.2. It uses Gnome 1.4. I assume the GUI is inaccessible for
> now.
> > > Can it do anything that you can't do in console mode?
> >
> > Probably.  I never suffered from that yet though.
> >
> > > Is the Mozilla browser usable in console mode?
> >
> > No.  However there are two alternatives that work in text mode:
> > lynx and links (note the spelling).
> >
> > > I will have to start my installation with a floppy, since I can't
> boot
> from
> > > my cd-rom. Does the disk set that Redhat sells for $60 include an
> > > installation boot floppy?
> >
> > Don't know.  However you can find the floppy image and the tools to
> write
> it
> > from DOS on the CD itself as well as on RedHat's FTP site.
> >
> > > Can I add brltty to that floppy so I can have
> > > Braille output as soon as possible?
> >
> > Certainly.  See the BRLTTY distribution for instructions.
> >
> >
> > Nicolas
> >
> >
> >
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 John J. Boyer
 ` Nicolas Pitre
   ` John J. Boyer
     ` David Poehlman
       ` John J. Boyer [this message]
         ` Dave Mielke
     ` Nicolas Pitre
   ` Janina Sajka
     ` John J. Boyer
   ` L. C. Robinson
     ` John J. Boyer
 ` Janina Sajka
 ` Dave Hunt
   ` John J. Boyer
     ` Georgina
       ` John J. Boyer
         ` Georgina
       ` Brent Harding

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