free terminal emulator for windows - download and install

["Rich Caloggero" <rjc@MIT.EDU>]

Janina wrote:
> > Another option would be a better screen reader for telnet and a
> > better telnet client. That would mean a good DOS screen reader
> > like asap or Vocal-Eyes, assuming he can actually run DOS on that
> > Windows machine. Neither of those is very cheap, though, and

I use a free windows terminal emulator called teraterm. I redefine the jaws
function sayNonHighlightedText to read everything appearing on the screen,
as long as its not a menu or in a dialog box (about 7 lines of code. Go to
http://barajas.mit.edu/teraterm/ to get the package. Just unzip it into a
directory somewhere and click on ttermpro.exe for the standard version or
ttssh.exe for the ssh version. Both report the application name is
ttermpro.exe, so the jaws scripts will work regardless.
The jaws scripts are in ttermpro.zip. Download this file, extract to your
jaws scripts directory, and then either press enter on this script filename
from within windows explorer or press insert+f2 and choose script manager
and open the file from there. Once you have the file, press control+s to
save and compile it. Now you should be able to run teraterm and jaws should
speak correctly.

The real problem is text editing. I use ex (vi without the full-screen
stuff - basically ed ), but only crazy people like me probably want to go
this way. I need to try a full screen editor and make it work via a terminal
emulator. VI might be a good choice, but the key bindings only make sense if
you know about ed. What's the other choices for full screen editing which
are *not* emacs? I've heard of something called vim (is this correct)?
There's pico and probably others. I need to try and make this work for
myself too, because using ex is nice in some ways, but its more typing than
I really want to do with my RSI the way it is.

I can help more with this if needed. Its not the greatest solution, but it
works very well for me. The terminal emulator is very very stable. Its
worked on every version of windows I've tried it on with the same results.

Hope this helps someone -- Teddy especially. Please don't hesitate to ask me
for more help. I will be unavailable for the next week or so, but after the
28th, I'll be able to answer e-mail again.

                    Rich Caloggero
                    MIT Adaptive Tech. for Info and Computing