From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.redhat.com (mail.redhat.com [199.183.24.239]) by listman.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3717D2F03E for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:05:17 -0500 (EST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) id eAB05Hw03947 for blinux-list@listman.redhat.com; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:05:17 -0500 Received: from sugarbeet.ultimanet.com (ultimanet.com [205.179.129.7]) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id eAB05CD03928 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:05:16 -0500 Received: (from garywynn@localhost) by sugarbeet.ultimanet.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id QAA23362; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:10:11 -0800 From: Gary Wynn Message-Id: <200011110010.QAA23362@sugarbeet.ultimanet.com> Subject: Installing zipspeak To: blinux-list@redhat.com (Blinux) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 100 16:10:11 -0800 (PST) Cc: jdashiel@shellworld.net (Jude DaShiell) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop: blinux-list@redhat.com Sender: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com X-BeenThere: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta4 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com List-Id: Linux for blind general discussion Hi, Jude, Whoa! Remember, I am a *real* newbie! This was a good day, so, with only a little help from my friends, I got FTP to work, and retrieved the file! Thank you for the step by step message on how to proceed, but I need to ask some questions before I get in trouble, which is easy for me to do. I can crash Linux, and I have even managed to get it to apparently corrupt my password file so I cannot get into linux again. First, I had better explain about my PC. I use an extended partition with multiple logical drives. When you say the root directory, you must mean drive C, as your later directions show it. Will this be a problem that I have drives D-K defined? Drive D is actually a partition on a separate physical drive. What will happen to DOS, and all the other things on C:?? I have a 255 meg partition for the C drive. There is more than 220 mb available. Is this enough? The D: drive has 2GB on it, and less than 300 mb is being used for utilities and such. The command: PKUNZIP -DO zipspeak.zip is a command, I take it. When you write for nuewbies using speech, remember to put commands on a line by themselves. I know PKZIP, and many of its parameters, but this in a sentence almost slipped by me. The synthesizer read it as "DO". I caught it because you write well, and I have read enough of your messages over several years to know it was not a typo. I looked more carefully, and recalled the parameter. I run a Lite Talk as you do. I will need those same files. Where is Matt's site? In what directory should I look? My FTP is primitive. It will only accept the hostname, and port on an open command. I have to login, and then do a cd, to the right directory. This is not NCFTP! When I do manage to get this put together, . . . What exactly will happen?--or should I say "should happen"?? --when this thing boots up? I think I should take a little time to do this, and back up my files first. Mr. Murphy and I are on great terms. He visits me daily. He is a great magician. He has been known to turn innocent software into digital snakes in my machine that have a nasty "byte"!