From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 6247 invoked from network); 19 Dec 1999 15:50:01 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by lists.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Dec 1999 15:50:01 -0000 Received: from xanadu.gn.com (modemcable233.137-200-24.mtl.mc.videotron.net [24.200.137.233]) by mail.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA21392 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 10:50:00 -0500 Received: from localhost (nico@localhost) by xanadu.gn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10977 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 10:45:05 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: xanadu.gn.com: nico owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 10:45:05 -0500 (EST) From: Nicolas Pitre X-Sender: nico@xanadu.gn.com To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: dosgate In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: dosgate is available from: http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zinie/dosgate/ On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Just an idea for someone with time to experiment: > > There is a package named "dosgate" available for few months already that > was announced on this list. This is a DOS program intended to run within > dosemu that mimic in dosemu aka DOS all Linux native virtual consoles. > This would allow, for example, one to pick up the free JAWS for DOS > version and run it along with dosgate, thus having JAWS for DOS (or any > other good old DOS screen reader) manage the Linux console. > > dosgate was originally written because somebody wanted to use his old Alva > ABT240 under Linux but there isn't any documentation available for it that > would have led to a BRLTTY driver. Instead, dosgate allowed for the DOS > TSR for the ABT240 to run under dosemu and dosgate just duplicate screen > content and keypresses between the DOS envirenment and Linux virtual > consoles transparently. > > That's something I wanted to play with for a long time, but... didn't come > to it yet. Since it should work with screen readers too, maybe this is a > good alternative too.