From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from hagus.bright.net ([205.212.123.74]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 168woL-0007Wv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:59:05 -0500 Received: from polaris (woos-max1-cs-26.dial.bright.net [209.143.18.45]) by hagus.bright.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with SMTP id fAS4x8gA025802 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:59:09 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <004c01c177c9$4e1ade00$0100a8c0@polaris> From: "Thomas Ward" To: References: <01112710102100.19715@lightstar> Subject: Re: Lindows preview. Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:58:21 -0500 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 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: However, as long as you put thedependent dll files somewhere your screen reader can find them it might work. I had a problem some months back with a copy of JFW, and I managed to badger Freedom Scientific into giving me the name of the dependancy dll files so I didn't have to upgrade Internet Explorer everytime they got a whim to update. So there is a chance, although slim, that wine could support a screen reader. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 12:10 PM Subject: Re: Lindows preview. > OK, here's the deal on "lindows" > It uses "Wine", a "Windows compatability layer" for linux. Wine requires X. > My best guess is that JAWS for windows won't run under Wine. I don't have a > copy to test with myself, but knowing what I do about the way Wine seperates > programs from each other quite a bit more than Windows does I doubt the > needed "common ground" that JAWS depends on would be present. > > Oh yeah, as an aside, the version of Wine that lindows will ship with is > modified slightly; it contains significantly better support for DirectX and > OpenGL than the regular version of Wine. > > On a completely unrelated note, it could be possible to write a version of > Wine that doesn't use X and simply dumps text to a console for speakup, or > whatever else, to read. No, I'm not volunteering for that project :-P > But if anytone happens to want to start a project to hack X and the relevent > toolkit libraries into accessible submission, I'll join, I've even got the > beginnings of a structure worked out for all of it. > > (hmmm.... this e-mail got a lot longer than I intended) > > On Tuesday November 27, 2001 02:35 am, you wrote: > > the same question occurred to me too. > > but it also occurred to me that if lindows is able to run both linux and > > windows programs as suggested, would you not be able to run your > > existing windows screen reader as well as speakup? > > of course not at the same time > > I thought that the idea of lindows was to have a thin translation layer > > for interpreting windows stuff. > > at least that's what I remember from what I've seen about it anyway. > > On > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >