From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from axis.scu.edu.au(wwwproxy.scu.edu.au[203.2.32.1]) (1679 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 07:21:43 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from alsvid.scu.edu.au (alsvid.scu.edu.au [203.2.33.1]) by axis.scu.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA00486 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 21:21:39 +1000 (EST) Received: from data.home (mail@annex6.scu.edu.au [203.2.32.106]) by alsvid.scu.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA30459 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:21:38 +1100 (EST) Received: from geoff by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13nb0E-0004pA-00; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:22:34 +1100 Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:22:34 +1100 (EST) From: Geoff Shang To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: speakup wierdness In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20001022101342.009e0d50@wapvi.bc.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Hi: You're almost certainly not going to get satisfactory operation from this type of setup. For a screen reader to work efficiently, it needs direct access to the synth it's controling. This is why you can't get speakup to shut up - it can't tell your dec pc to shut up. I'd suggest using a terminal program on your dos box as that's about as good as you'll be able to do until you get a supported synth or yours becomes supported. I accessed my machine for 10 months this way before I could use speakup. If you want to access multiple processes at once, you can use the screen program to switch between them. Geoff. -- Geoff Shang ICQ number 43634701