question about the cvs checkout script

question about the cvs checkout script

[alex wallis]

hi list.
could someone please advise me how I download the speakup cvs checkout script from the main downloads page on the speakup site?
as i've tried with both i e and a download manager called free download manager both with no luck.
if possible could you either send me instructions on how to get the script or even just e mail it to me directly?
thanks.

Re: question about the cvs checkout script

[Michael Whapples]

A few things to say here:
As I remember browsers tend to open the checkout script as a text file,
so you may need to tell it to download it (I think for IE you need to
use the applications key or the equivalent of right clickig the link and
selecting "save target as").
To use the CVS checkout script you will need a working Linux machine, it
is of no use if you only have a windows system.
You also probably want to get speakup from git rather than CVS as that
is where the current development is now.
If you don't have a Linux system working now, you would do better
getting a distro with speakup or another screen reader already built in.
Depending on what you want to get from Linux, as a windows user you may
find orca in the gnome desktop easier to get started with (ubuntu
(www.ubuntu.com) is possibly the easiest to get started with orca, GRML
(www.grml.org) is a good starting point for looking at speakup, neither
of these actually require an install to use them).

Michael Whapples
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 16:46 +0100, alex wallis wrote:
> hi list.
> could someone please advise me how I download the speakup cvs checkout script from the main downloads page on the speakup site?
> as i've tried with both i e and a download manager called free download manager both with no luck.
> if possible could you either send me instructions on how to get the script or even just e mail it to me directly?
> thanks.