From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from nsfone.fone.net ([206.168.68.96]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I2fw1-00026R-00 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:12:23 -0400 Received: from mail2.fone.net (mail2.fone.net [206.168.68.165]) by nsfone.fone.net (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l5P4BBjT023368 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:11:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: from tdsportable (ip-206-123-194-16.static.fasttrackcomm.net [206.123.194.16]) by mail2.fone.net (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.10) with SMTP id l5P4Bko7017530 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:11:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <002101c7b6de$eeee2d50$6c01a8c0@tdsportable> From: "Littlefield, tyler" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <467F3C6A.4060206@clearwire.net> Subject: Re: Trying out Slackware Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:11:33 -0700 Organization: TDS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000751-5, 06/24/2007), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-PMX-Version: 5.3.1.294258, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.6.24.205532 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Littlefield, tyler" , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:12:23 -0000 that's not a very hard program to write... slackware requires some coding at times to. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaijin" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 8:54 PM Subject: Re: Trying out Slackware > Zachary Kline wrote: > > What is the method for installing stuff that isn't in the Slackware >> package lists? > > On the install DVD/CDs, you'll find a directory named "slackbook." > Not only does it teach you something about Slackware, but a little > about Linux itself. Use your web browser and load the index.html file. > It sounded like a pretty well written pamphlet on the system. I'm > used to books being a little larger. I assume you'll have to > visit Sourceforge for additional packages and install them into > /usr/local. How they missed dos2unix I don't know, but the 'tr' command > should do for removing carriage returns. > > Michael > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup