From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 6587 invoked by uid 0); 9 Oct 1996 20:51:11 -0000 MBOX-Line: From oedipus@leb.net Wed Oct 9 22:49:55 1996 Received: (qmail 2767 invoked by uid 504); 9 Oct 1996 16:12:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 2753 invoked from smtpd); 9 Oct 1996 16:12:55 -0000 Received: from cublx2.cube.net (root@194.97.64.61) by goldfish.cube.net with SMTP; 9 Oct 1996 16:11:44 -0000 Received: from beirut.leb.net ([206.127.55.2]) by cublx2.cube.net with ESMTP id <25089-380>; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 11:44:33 +0200 Received: from localhost (oedipus@localhost) by beirut.leb.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA18399; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 05:25:16 +0200 Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 05:25:16 +0200 (EET) From: BLINUX Documentation Project Reply-To: BLINUX Documentation Project To: root@zygote.ivory.com, brian@henge.com cc: Blind Access to Linux List , linux-access , uab-l Subject: Re: UltraSonix screen-reader for X-windows available at BLINUX site Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: aloha, brian! you are correct in stating that there is no linux port of the ultrasonix source code at the present time, hence the filename: UltraSonix.source-7.0.tar.Z (2.4 MB) and, as you noted, >The file >listed above is the original public release of the UltraSonix sources >which were written for a SPARCstation + Solaris. > There is a Linux port under way, but it has >only just begun. now, a question... since you're working on the port, would you be willing to keep the members of blinux-list, as well as linux-access and uab-l, apprised of the port's progress? i've linked your web pages concerning the port to the blinux web site (http://leb.net/blinux) and would like, when you are ready for such a step, to add a link to the "Betas in Search of Testers" page... and, with your permission, i'd like to mirror the port update page in ASCII form at the BLINUX FTP Archive, ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux as for the rest of you hackers, once you download the public non-commercial release of the UltraSonix source code (ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux/UltraSonix.source-7.0.tar.Z) please keep the rest of us apprised of you work/progress and let us know when you need our input--after all, that's the primary purpose of these lists... thanks for the clarification brian--i apologize for any misunterstanding and confusion i may have caused with my original post... gregory. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmatia, oedipus@leb.net or blinux@leb.net http://leb.net/blinux ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux ftp://leb.net/incoming/blinux electronic archivist and webmaster for The BLINUX Documentation Project ----------------------------------------------------------------------------