From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 1524 invoked from network); 18 Nov 1998 16:16:55 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by lists.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Nov 1998 16:16:55 -0000 Received: from mielke.ml.org (cpu2311.adsl.bellglobal.com [207.236.16.34]) by mail.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA15524 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:16:54 -0500 Received: from dave.private.mielke.ml.org (dave@dave.private.mielke.ml.org [192.168.0.2]) by mielke.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA08305; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:16:23 -0500 Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by dave.private.mielke.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA06180; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:16:13 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: dave.private.mielke.ml.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:16:12 -0500 (EST) From: Dave Mielke To: Nicolas Pitre cc: John Covici , "Linux General Discussion for Blind Users (mailing list)" Subject: Re: DOS limitations under Linux In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >I use dosemu with raw keyboard enabled and video = console disabled and >everything work, except BRLTTY's cursor routing and cut'n paste functions. As a BRLTTY user, I know this to be true too. The problem with typical speech screen presentation tools, e.g. screader, is that they require a foreground server to intercept keyboard input and screen output. This necessarily means that they use a PTY, which makes DOSEMU's raw keyboard mode impossible to activate. With this configuration, by the way, it is only BRLTTY's paste function which dods not work. Its cut function works just fine in that one can cut from the DOS session, switch TTYs, and then paste into a Linux session. >This way screen review programs can read the screen and al alt >key combinations are available directly. It would sure be nice if BRLTTY's method of screen monitoring, i.e. background screen content analysis, would be used by speech applications. While I'm thinking of it, it would be nice, too, if UltraSonix had a way to communicate with BRLTTY so that individual braille display drivers would not have to be rewritten for it. -- Dave Mielke | 856 Grenon Avenue Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario EMail: dave@mielke.ml.org | Canada K2B 6G3