From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from nimbus.ocis.temple.edu([155.247.166.101]) (2845 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:05:44 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from default (rh379.coe.temple.edu [155.247.238.190]) by nimbus.ocis.temple.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA11649 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:05:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <001901c01743$af4d4ba0$beeef79b@default> From: "Victor Tsaran" To: References: <002f01c016eb$0a4cb9e0$c2e4f79b@wang> Subject: Re: Yet one more success with SPeakup Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:15:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 List-Id: Yes, I'd like to try thatscript. Regards, Vic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Reiser" To: Cc: "Speakup List" Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 6:51 AM Subject: Re: Yet one more success with SPeakup | "Victor Tsaran" writes: | | > Dear listers and particularly developers of SPeakup! | > I just wanted to report that we've got one more record in favor of Speakup | > and its great usability to blind Linux users and system admins. | | Well, thank you very much for the kind words about your adventures in | Thailand. It would be interesting to hear more about how they are | using Linux and speakup and the like. | | | > Pico or Emacs, but I believe the cursoring issue will befixwed soon. One | > thing that was mostly confusing for the new blind Linux users is that they | > could not use another screen reader on the same port where Speakup was | > running. So, if this problem could be addressed in the future, it would be | > benefitial and, at least democratic, grin! | | We have rough support for cursoring and an accessable device | /dev/synth in the current version of speakup in cvs. It is still | pretty rough however but it is certainly coming along. Anyone that is | interested in playing with the cvs can drop me a note and I will send | out a script they can use to download and patch the cvs version into a | clean full source kernel. | | If the folks already using the cvs version think the script is stable | enough, I could post it to the list and place it on the ftp area. | | Kirk | | -- | Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility | e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario | phone: (519) 661-3061 | | _______________________________________________ | Speakup mailing list | Speakup@braille.uwo.ca | http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup