From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 2723 invoked by uid 0); 13 Oct 1996 21:11:47 -0000 MBOX-Line: From covici@ccs.covici.com Sun Oct 13 23:08:38 1996 Received: (qmail 1647 invoked by uid 504); 13 Oct 1996 20:10:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 1638 invoked from smtpd); 13 Oct 1996 20:10:14 -0000 Received: from cublx2.cube.net (root@194.97.64.61) by goldfish.cube.net with SMTP; 13 Oct 1996 20:06:27 -0000 Received: from mail.clark.net ([168.143.0.10]) by cublx2.cube.net with ESMTP id <25094-380>; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 08:43:26 +0200 Received: from ccs.clark.net (ccs.clark.net [168.143.3.15]) by mail.clark.net (8.7.3/8.6.5) with SMTP id CAA11966; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 02:41:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ccs.covici.com (UUPC/extended 1.12j); Thu, 10 Oct 1996 22:05:11 -0400 Message-ID: <325dab57.ccs@ccs.covici.com> From: covici@ccs.covici.com (John Covici) To: brian@henge.com Cc: malv0002@gold.tc.umn.edu, blinux-list@goldfish.cube.net Subject: Re: UltraSonix screen-reader for X-windows available at BLINUX site Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 21:42:51 -0400 Organization: Covici Computer systems Reply-To: covici@ccs.covici.com Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <199610092344.RAA01844@zygote.ivory.com> List-Id: on Wed, 9 Oct 1996 17:44:02 -0600 brian@henge.com in <199610092344.RAA01844@zygote.ivory.com> wrote: >Hello Michael, > >> pardon my ignorance. I am glad to see that we can use x-windows, >> but will this program also support standard unix shells such as bash, or >> tcsh? > >Absolutely! Running a shell in a X-terminal is peanuts >compared to many more complicated applications. UltraSonix is not written >with any particular application in mind. You want shells? We got shells! But can you do the simple thing, i.e. set up a computer with Linux and run something from the console which will speak everything? Would have been nice to have something in the kernel for some of the basic sdreen reader functionality. -- John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com