From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mtai04.charter.net ([209.225.8.184]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ip3H7-0006IT-00 for ; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:50:02 -0500 Received: from aa04.charter.net ([10.20.200.156]) by mtai04.charter.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.00 201-2186-121-20061213) with ESMTP id <20071105144931.QAGA12338.mtai04.charter.net@aa04.charter.net> for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:49:31 -0500 Received: from h14me.homelinux.net ([24.151.121.233]) by aa04.charter.net with ESMTP id <20071105144931.XREF1254.aa04.charter.net@h14me.homelinux.net> for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:49:31 -0500 Received: from h14me.homelinux.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by h14me.homelinux.net (8.13.4/8.12.11) with ESMTP id lA5EnUgY008495 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:49:30 -0500 Received: (from alex_snow@localhost) by h14me.homelinux.net (8.13.4/8.12.10/Submit) id lA5EnU7t008494 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:49:30 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:49:30 -0500 From: Alex Snow To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: What is the difference between Speakup and Zipspeak? Message-ID: <20071105144930.GB8410@gmx.net> References: <591255.4799.qm@web58905.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <010701c81f59$57d55bd0$ab00a8c0@proficio> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <010701c81f59$57d55bd0$ab00a8c0@proficio> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on h14me.homelinux.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Chzlrs: 0 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "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, 05 Nov 2007 14:50:02 -0000 and if you want to use zipspeak, I would recommend downloading zipslack from the latest slackware release that contained it (9.1?) and just replacing the kernel with a speakup one from the same slackware version. I seem to remember zipspeak having some issues (cr/lf line endings in the startup scripts comes to mind) so doing this is probably your best bet. On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 10:09:55PM -0500, Doug Sutherland wrote: > Zipspeak is speakup. It's a slackware based small distro > that will work on a DOS partition using the UMSDOS > filesystem. It is a minimal slackware system same as the > normal slackware just different type of file system, with > speakup kernel precompiled. > > -- Doug > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line User Environment. -- seen in a posting in comp.software.testing