Re: personal money management tools for linux without X?

[Brent Harding <bharding@doorpi.net>]

Will any screen readers used in dos run in dosemu? I use speakup in linux
and find it doesn't do dos real well. If I end up with megadots or
something like that, it'd be cool to use something like that in linux to
braille away if I had a braille printer (can't afford it at the moment).
At 11:22 AM 12/1/01 -0800, you wrote:
>I do not use DOS for many years and do not know the programs you are using
>under it. One thing that I would try first is to run dosemu, DOS emulator,
>and the same programs you use already. That way you gradualy move over to
>Linux and replace DOS programs with native Linux ones if available. Of 
>course there is a danger that not all programs will run well under dosemu. 
>Well behaved ones do.
>
>DOS partition can be mounted under Linux and accessed from dosemu and 
>hopefuly your program would run the same way it does in it's native 
>environment.
>
>There are commercial products like VMware and Win4linux (I think) which 
>you can use for running windows in Linux or the other way around. I use 
>VMware at work to run Windows 2000 inside Linux. I need that because of 
>only one application, Checkpoint firewall management console. I must say 
>that VMware works great and W2000 behaves like a real PC with 
>emulation of power on,self test, boot, and networking.
>
>Good luck,
>
>-- 
>Rafael
>
>
>On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 12:36:12PM -0500, Bill Gaughan wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, listers,
>> 
>> I am looking for a money management program that works in linux without
>> X-windows. One that is, of course, blind friendly. Pull-down menus or
>> numbered key choices from a screen menu, okay. I need to do simple home
>> money management, track a check register, income and expense tracking,
>> keep track of credit card purchases, etc. I don't need fancy reports like
>> account summaries or general ledgers. Just simple transaction data entry
>> would be fine. Anybody remember MoneyCounts 8.0 for DOS from Parsons
>> Technology. Well, I am still using it even to print checks. I would like
>> to do all this in linux so I don't have to reboot back to DOS. Any
>> accounting programs available in linux that are blind friendly?
>> 
>> Oh, does anybody remember Charlie Crawford's talking checkbook program?
>> That used to be available from www.empowermentzone.com? I have this one
>> too, but it is DOS. But, it was freeware. Q. Has this program been ported
>> to linux? If anybody knows how to get in touch with Charlie Crawford,
>> please let him know that a linux port would be useful to many of his
>> fellow blind friends. Any ideas, listers?
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Bill Gaughan
>> wgaughan@snet.net
>> 
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Blinux-list mailing list
>Blinux-list@redhat.com
>https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
>
>