From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 12929 invoked from network); 17 Dec 1998 20:18:23 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by lists.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Dec 1998 20:18:23 -0000 Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (daemon@smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by mail.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA18005 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 15:08:22 -0500 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21740 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 13:08:15 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd021681; Thu Dec 17 13:08:12 1998 Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 13:08:01 -0700 (MST) From: Lorie McCloud To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: basic questions Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: hi listers, i just joined this list. my question is a basic 1 so if anybody wants to answer me privately that's ok. my braille lite is my computer. i use it online with a shell account. i'm thinking about getting a pc & i don't want to run windows for reasons i probably don't need to go into here. i don't know dos. i do know how to use pine, ftp, lynx & irc. if i ran some version of linux, would i be able to use real audio & cd-rom & would i be able to do some version of a net phone where i could actually talk on chat lines? i think i could get somebody to help me with installation if i did this. also, i'd like to use my lite 18 to read the screen. what would i need in order to interface the 2 machines? thanks in advance. lorie Through Reverse Speech we realize that God created us but we have to recreate ourselves because we have torn ourselves to pieces.Richard Rubacher