From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from goliath.sylaba.poznan.pl([195.216.104.3]) (1903 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 09:59:08 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from Cybertsar (ppp05.sylaba.poznan.pl [195.216.104.105]) by goliath.sylaba.poznan.pl (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id f4NDwsH19534 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 15:58:55 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <002001c0e391$12db5120$0100a8c0@mshome.net> From: "Victor Tsaran" To: References: <003401c0e0c7$58e091c0$7d68d8c3@mshome.net> <20010522103826.A244@linserver.megsinet.net> <006301c0e2c7$78da36f0$23aef0cd@calder> Subject: Re: Help the Floundering Newbie! Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 15:59:29 +0200 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: Hi, Rich! I think you are right about difficulties of writing the code with speech, but reading is even more difficult, agree. I think your best choice would be Emacs with Emacspeak, but as you say, you will not have access to the physical hardware. In this case, it will probably be very hard. Unless you can somehow use Windows to access the shell, I don't see any other alternative to using refreshable Braille display. I myself would be very happy to get one, but here money is the biggest issue for me coming from Eastern Europe. The good thing about Emacs/Emacspeak combination is the availability of speech-enabled modes for various programming languages such as PERL, C/C++, HTML, Java. There is even an sql-mysql mode which is very convenient. Can't you somehow get a machine running Linux with which you could access your organization's network? Best, Victor