From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 2730 invoked by uid 0); 13 Oct 1996 21:11:47 -0000 MBOX-Line: From covici@ccs.covici.com Sun Oct 13 23:09:02 1996 Received: (qmail 1133 invoked by uid 504); 13 Oct 1996 20:06:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 1090 invoked from smtpd); 13 Oct 1996 20:06:52 -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 <24751-409>; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 18:04:17 +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 MAA23712; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 12:01:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ccs.covici.com (UUPC/extended 1.12j); Fri, 11 Oct 1996 07:53:42 -0400 Message-ID: <325e3546.ccs@ccs.covici.com> From: covici@ccs.covici.com (John Covici) To: root Cc: brian@henge.com, malv0002@gold.tc.umn.edu, blinux-list@goldfish.cube.net Subject: Re: UltraSonix screen-reader for X-windows available at BLINUX site Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 07:49:32 -0400 Organization: Covici Computer systems Reply-To: covici@ccs.covici.com Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <199610110725.BAA01013@zygote.ivory.com> List-Id: on Fri, 11 Oct 1996 01:25:27 -0600 root in <199610110725.BAA01013@zygote.ivory.com> wrote: >Hello John, >> 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? > > UltraSonix is, of course, an X-windows >application. It will not install >Linux, or solve all our problems. >If you want speech from the console, there are tools for that. > >> Would have been nice to have something in the kernel for some of the >> basic sdreen reader functionality. > >Luckily, Linux has an ever-changing kernel. So, since the purpous of >this list is to discuss these things, let's hear your ideas, develop some code, >and submit it to Linus! Well, I don't have the thing -- I just have one computer working now so I was never able to install it since a terminal is required. I would look forward to other contributions -- that is why I have subscribed to this list. -- John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com