FTP from Slackware.com

FTP from Slackware.com

[Gary Wynn]

Hi, 
I did get on to the FTP site for Slackware.com.
I found the /pub directory, but there is only one file in it,
and no other directories.  Anyone know of another directory/path to 
ZipSpeak?

Thanks.

Re: FTP from Slackware.com

[Mike Gorse]

You want ftp.slackware.com, not slackware.com.

On Fri, 10 Nov 100, Gary Wynn wrote:

> Hi,
> I did get on to the FTP site for Slackware.com.
> I found the /pub directory, but there is only one file in it,
> and no other directories.  Anyone know of another directory/path to
> ZipSpeak?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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Re: FTP from Slackware.com

[Lyta Alexander]

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-7.1/zipspeak

On Fri, 10 Nov 100, Gary Wynn wrote:

> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 100 07:26:52 -0800 (PST)
> From: Gary Wynn <garywynn@sugarbeet.ultimanet.com>
> Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com
> To: Blinux <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> Subject: FTP from Slackware.com
> 
> Hi, 
> I did get on to the FTP site for Slackware.com.
> I found the /pub directory, but there is only one file in it,
> and no other directories.  Anyone know of another directory/path to 
> ZipSpeak?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
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Re: FTP from Slackware.com

[Gary Wynn]

Got it!  36 megabytes???  I surely hope that it is not a 20 meg app.
with 30 megs of docs to read!  It took 3 hours to download.  I suspect
that that is the easy part.
Thanks for the help.

Re: FTP from Slackware.com

[Jude DaShiell]

Okay now install it.  Put it in your root directory and unzip it.  If you
use pkunzip, pkunzip -do zipspeak.zip will do that properly for you.  Next
in the c:\linux subdirectory you'll find a readme.txt file.  Good idea to
read the file, it's not that long.  Then you'll need to download a couple
more files appropriate for your speech synthesizer.  You can't run this on a
sound card, so if that's all you have delete the file unless that will
change soon.  I have a litetalk synthesizer and needed to download ltlk and
ltlk.img from matt campbell's site.  I copied ltlk to vmlinuz.spk and put it
in my linux directory and then ran loadlin.  loadlin is the dos program that
will run zipspeak.  Before you try this, put your synthesizer in standby or
sleep mode so it's still on and can be started up by other software.  what I
typed was loadlin \linux\vmlinuz.spk root=/dev/hda5 rw <cr>.  If you have an
ide hard drive and you used c: for this system, it should start to come up
and work.  Now here's a life line for you.  If you don't get to the login
prompt and even if you do, after you have shutdown and reboted back into
dos, have a look at c:\linux\var\adm\syslog.  That's a very important file.
If any major errors happened in your boot process linux writes them in that
file.  If there's lots of stuff in that file, send that file as part of a
message to a list and ask for help.  People will be able to see what
happened on your machine and give you intelligent help lots quicker.  If you
want to sign up to blinux-newbie, send email to listserv@braille.uwo.ca
blank subject line and a line in the body of the message reading subscribe
blinux-newbie <first_name> <last_name> where you fill in the variables with
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Wynn" <garywynn@sugarbeet.ultimanet.com>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: FTP from Slackware.com


> Got it!  36 megabytes???  I surely hope that it is not a 20 meg app.
> with 30 megs of docs to read!  It took 3 hours to download.  I suspect
> that that is the easy part.
> Thanks for the help.
>
>
>
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