current information

current information

[Cheryl Homiak]

Where does one find the current information and documentation on speakup. everything I see on the website looks OLD and outdated.
Not meaning to be critical; I know there have been a lot of changes with speakup, and if one has to choose, I'd rather see changes in the program. But I think i must be looking in the wrong place.

thanks.

Cheryl

Re: current information

[Thomas Stivers]

On 08/24/03 11:43 AM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Where does one find the current information and documentation on speakup. everything I see on the website looks OLD and outdated.
> Not meaning to be critical; I know there have been a lot of changes with speakup, and if one has to choose, I'd rather see changes in the program. But I think i must be looking in the wrong place.

I have been working on a speakup howto which *hopefully* will be ready
for release with speakup 2.0, but it remains incomplete. From what I can tell the most current documentation is in the change log in the speakup tree, I.E. /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup/ChangeLog. The other Changes file is the cronicle of early speakup development. 
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Re: current information

[Janina Sajka]

I'd be happy to do some critical reading whenever you're ready. 

It seems to me that with all the teachers and authors on this list, to
say nothing of advocates like me, we should be the best documented spot
on the net.

<hint hint hint>


Thomas Stivers writes:
> From: Thomas Stivers <stivers_t@tomass.dyndns.org>
> 
> On 08/24/03 11:43 AM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> > Where does one find the current information and documentation on speakup. everything I see on the website looks OLD and outdated.
> > Not meaning to be critical; I know there have been a lot of changes with speakup, and if one has to choose, I'd rather see changes in the program. But I think i must be looking in the wrong place.
> 
> I have been working on a speakup howto which *hopefully* will be ready
> for release with speakup 2.0, but it remains incomplete. From what I can tell the most current documentation is in the change log in the speakup tree, I.E. /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup/ChangeLog. The other Changes file is the cronicle of early speakup development. 
> -- 
> Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more
> carefully than others.
> Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t@tomass.dyndns.org	gpg: 45CBBABD
> 
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				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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Re: current information

[Thomas Stivers]

On 08/24/03  2:19 PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> I'd be happy to do some critical reading whenever you're ready. 
> 
> It seems to me that with all the teachers and authors on this list, to
> say nothing of advocates like me, we should be the best documented spot
> on the net.

Well i should have something for you once I flesh out the section on
keyboard mapping, but I'd like to have someone contribute their
experiences with a dectalk PC and loading its firmware as well as it
seems that will be in 2.0 also.

I am also unsure whether to include distro specific information about
speakup initialization and loading the modules because there is not
really a standard way to do itt. I believe that at least redhat and
debian have the system V init scripts so they should work much the same.

Perhapse if there are not to be any more major features added and just
bugs to be worked out i will go ahead and make this howto available, but don't expect too much as I am no professional technical writer.
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Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more
carefully than others.
Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t@tomass.dyndns.org	gpg: 45CBBABD