* Adding programs
@ Keith Heltsley
` jwantz
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0 siblings, 4 replies; 36+ messages in thread
From: Keith Heltsley @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: SpeakUp List
I managed to spend some time at my windows machine to look at some howto's
and other docs. I still don't know how to get lynx and emacspeak loaded on
the newly installed /RedHat box.
How do import text files that I created in my windows box?
from
Keith Heltsley
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread* Re: Adding programs Adding programs Keith Heltsley @ ` jwantz ` Keith Heltsley ` Adding programs Igor Gueths ` (2 subsequent siblings) 3 siblings, 1 reply; 36+ messages in thread From: jwantz @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: SpeakUp List Hi Keith, Well, first of all how much disk space do you have? If you have enough it might be worthwhile to reinstall with server (you definitely get lynx then). As far as transferring files from your WINDBLOWS machine to Linux it depends. I'll assume that you do not have the two machines networked on a LANThen the easiest way is to move files onto a floppy. To mount a floppy on your linux machine so that it will read M$ WINDOWS: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy Then copy the files from the floppy into your favorite Linux directory: cd /mnt/floppy cp *.txt ~keith/myfavorites I hope this helps. Jim Wantz On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Keith Heltsley wrote: > I managed to spend some time at my windows machine to look at some howto's > and other docs. I still don't know how to get lynx and emacspeak loaded on > the newly installed /RedHat box. > > How do import text files that I created in my windows box? > > from > Keith Heltsley > > The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Adding programs ` jwantz @ ` Keith Heltsley ` jwantz ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Keith Heltsley @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Thanks for the help with the mount command. Would that also work to view/copy the documentation files from the CDROM? Does anyone here have the subscription info to get onto blinux-newbie or a similar list? I found it once but can't remember where. from Keith H. Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Adding programs ` Keith Heltsley @ ` jwantz ` Igor Gueths ` Janina Sajka 2 siblings, 0 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: jwantz @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi Keith, Assuming that you have a good /etc/fstab file (install should have done this for you) you just need to: mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom Since I don't like to type any more than I have to I've got the whole thing aliased to a three-letter command: alias mcd='mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom' This assumes you are using the bash shell. You can determine this by issuing the following command: echo $SHELL Again, bash is the default shell in most distributions of linux including Redhat. If so, then you can place the above alias command in/etc/bashrc. To make the alias to take effect immediately: source /etc/bashrc The next time you boot up your machine it'll be there for you as well. I don't know any linux newbies lists maybe somebody else can help. Jim Wantz On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Keith Heltsley wrote: > Thanks for the help with the mount command. Would that also work to > view/copy the documentation files from the CDROM? > > Does anyone here have the subscription info to get onto blinux-newbie or a > similar list? I found it once but can't remember where. > > from > Keith H. > > Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Adding programs ` Keith Heltsley ` jwantz @ ` Igor Gueths ` Janina Sajka 2 siblings, 0 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Igor Gueths @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi Kieth. Well if your cdrom is hdc like mine is, then just type: mount /dev/hdc /mnt. Then to copy the documentation, just change to that directory and type: cp *.txt /favorite/linux/dir, where /your/favorite/linux/dir is something like /home. Hope this helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: Keith Heltsley <keithh432@yahoo.com> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 4:02 PM Subject: Re: Adding programs > Thanks for the help with the mount command. Would that also work to > view/copy the documentation files from the CDROM? > > Does anyone here have the subscription info to get onto blinux-newbie or a > similar list? I found it once but can't remember where. > > from > Keith H. > > Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Adding programs ` Keith Heltsley ` jwantz ` Igor Gueths @ ` Janina Sajka ` speakup mailing list randy turner 2 siblings, 1 reply; 36+ messages in thread From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup You want to do a similar thing to your CD ROM. You want to mount it: mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom is very likely all the command you'll need. Once mounted, all the HOWTO files will be accessible in their own directory. Under RedHat/RPMS (note the capital letters, and use tab completion to make it easy on yourself), you'll find all kinds of rpms that will install documentation on your harddrive: rpm -iv * should take care of installing all of them. PS: you might want to look at /usr/share/doc to see what docs are already installed. Also, you might want to create a symbolic link to this directory as follows: ln -sf /usr/share/doc /usr/doc in order to ensure that all docs end up in the same tree as you install new applications. On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Keith Heltsley wrote: > Thanks for the help with the mount command. Would that also work to > view/copy the documentation files from the CDROM? > > Does anyone here have the subscription info to get onto blinux-newbie or a > similar list? I found it once but can't remember where. > > from > Keith H. > > Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* speakup mailing list ` Janina Sajka @ ` randy turner 0 siblings, 0 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: randy turner @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Janina Sajka; +Cc: speakup hi, i was just wondering, is the list down? i have not recieved any messages from the list for a while now. thanks randy ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Adding programs Adding programs Keith Heltsley ` jwantz @ ` Igor Gueths ` Charles Hallenbeck ` (2 more replies) ` Thomas D. Ward ` Adding programs Janina Sajka 3 siblings, 3 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Igor Gueths @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi Keith. You can get a program called dos2unix, which will convert your text files from win format to a unix format. It is esentially removing the linefeeds and other chars from the file. I forget where to get it, if I find it I'll post the url. I found the site through google though. Hope this helps. Igor ----- Original Message ----- From: Keith Heltsley <keithh432@yahoo.com> To: SpeakUp List <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 2:27 PM Subject: Adding programs > I managed to spend some time at my windows machine to look at some howto's > and other docs. I still don't know how to get lynx and emacspeak loaded on > the newly installed /RedHat box. > > How do import text files that I created in my windows box? > > from > Keith Heltsley > > The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Adding programs ` Adding programs Igor Gueths @ ` Charles Hallenbeck ` Igor Gueths ` Georgina Joyce ` Janina Sajka 2 siblings, 1 reply; 36+ messages in thread From: Charles Hallenbeck @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Igor - My Slackware distro comes with "fromdos" and "todos" which perform that conversion. Chuck On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi Keith. You can get a program called dos2unix, which will convert your text files from win format to a unix format. It is esentially removing the linefeeds and other chars from the file. I forget where to get it, if I find it I'll post the url. I found the site through google though. Hope this helps. > > Igor > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Keith Heltsley <keithh432@yahoo.com> > To: SpeakUp List <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 2:27 PM > Subject: Adding programs > > > > I managed to spend some time at my windows machine to look at some howto's > > and other docs. I still don't know how to get lynx and emacspeak loaded on > > the newly installed /RedHat box. > > > > How do import text files that I created in my windows box? > > > > from > > Keith Heltsley > > > > The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is Waning Gibbous (98% of Full) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Adding programs ` Charles Hallenbeck @ ` Igor Gueths ` jwantz ` Adding programs Keith Heltsley 0 siblings, 2 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Igor Gueths @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi Chuck. I was just assuming the fact that he didn't have fromdos and todos. ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Hallenbeck <hallenbeck@valstar.net> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 3:36 PM Subject: Re: Adding programs > Igor - > My Slackware distro comes with "fromdos" and "todos" which > perform that conversion. > Chuck > > > > On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote: > > > Hi Keith. You can get a program called dos2unix, which will convert your text files from win format to a unix format. It is esentially removing the linefeeds and other chars from the file. I forget where to get it, if I find it I'll post the url. I found the site through google though. Hope this helps. > > > > Igor > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Keith Heltsley <keithh432@yahoo.com> > > To: SpeakUp List <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 2:27 PM > > Subject: Adding programs > > > > > > > I managed to spend some time at my windows machine to look at some howto's > > > and other docs. I still don't know how to get lynx and emacspeak loaded on > > > the newly installed /RedHat box. > > > > > > How do import text files that I created in my windows box? > > > > > > from > > > Keith Heltsley > > > > > > The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (98% of Full) > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Adding programs ` Igor Gueths @ ` jwantz ` Toby Fisher ` Adding programs Keith Heltsley 1 sibling, 1 reply; 36+ messages in thread From: jwantz @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi Guys, No, I don't think he does. I have dos2unix and unix2dos. Unfortunately, I don't remember if they were in the original Redhat install. Since I now use apt-get install just like you guys running Debian I tend to forget these things. (a big grin of pleasure) Jim Wantz On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi Chuck. I was just assuming the fact that he didn't have fromdos and todos. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Charles Hallenbeck <hallenbeck@valstar.net> > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 3:36 PM > Subject: Re: Adding programs > > > > Igor - > > My Slackware distro comes with "fromdos" and "todos" which > > perform that conversion. > > Chuck > > > > > > > > On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote: > > > > > Hi Keith. You can get a program called dos2unix, which will convert your text files from win format to a unix format. It is esentially removing the linefeeds and other chars from the file. I forget where to get it, if I find it I'll post the url. I found the site through google though. Hope this helps. > > > > > > Igor > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Keith Heltsley <keithh432@yahoo.com> > > > To: SpeakUp List <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > > > Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 2:27 PM > > > Subject: Adding programs > > > > > > > > > > I managed to spend some time at my windows machine to look at some howto's > > > > and other docs. I still don't know how to get lynx and emacspeak loaded on > > > > the newly installed /RedHat box. > > > > > > > > How do import text files that I created in my windows box? > > > > > > > > from > > > > Keith Heltsley > > > > > > > > The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck > > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (98% of Full) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Adding programs ` jwantz @ ` Toby Fisher ` Igor Gueths ` Where to go now Jared 0 siblings, 2 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Toby Fisher @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 jwantz@hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote: > No, I don't think he does. I have dos2unix and unix2dos. > Unfortunately, I don't remember if they were in the original Redhat > install. Since I now use apt-get install just like you guys running > Debian I tend to forget these things. (a big grin of pleasure) Hi all. I realise of course that fromdos, dos2unix etc are great, but if they're not present, what's wrong with tr? In case anyone hasn't heard of tr, well it's just great, for all sorts of things, mostly in scripts, but check out the man page, you can do all sorts of stuff, like change the case of characters, remove large amounts of blank space, whatever. It's probably one of my favourite tools for manipulating text files. HTH -- Toby Fisher Email: toby@g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Adding programs ` Toby Fisher @ ` Igor Gueths ` Where to go now Jared 1 sibling, 0 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Igor Gueths @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi Toby. Thanks for the info on that utility, I'll check it out when I get around to it. It sounds really interesting though. On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Toby Fisher wrote: > On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 jwantz@hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote: > > > No, I don't think he does. I have dos2unix and unix2dos. > > Unfortunately, I don't remember if they were in the original Redhat > > install. Since I now use apt-get install just like you guys running > > Debian I tend to forget these things. (a big grin of pleasure) > > Hi all. > > I realise of course that fromdos, dos2unix etc are great, but if they're > not present, what's wrong with tr? > In case anyone hasn't heard of tr, well it's just great, for all sorts of > things, mostly in scripts, but check out the man page, you can do all > sorts of stuff, like change the case of characters, remove large amounts > of blank space, whatever. It's probably one of my favourite tools for > manipulating text files. > > HTH > > -- > Toby Fisher Email: toby@g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk > Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 > ICQ: #61744808 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Where to go now ` Toby Fisher ` Igor Gueths @ ` Jared ` Toby Fisher ` (3 more replies) 1 sibling, 4 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Jared @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hello I got zipspeak from the ftp sight since after messing arround with partitions and not setting the write one active I didn't get redhat installed. I think I will use zipspeak for a little while and install debian on my 4 gig d drive since it is smaller then redhat if I like it. My question is where to go for doccumentation on the packiges included. I've been listening to the look at linux series on acb radio and that has helped but where do I go for stuff like how to use the vi text editor? Also if someone could help me out with where to get emacs and the voice engines for software speack I'd appreciate it. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Where to go now ` Where to go now Jared @ ` Toby Fisher ` Jared ` Thomas D. Ward ` (2 subsequent siblings) 3 siblings, 1 reply; 36+ messages in thread From: Toby Fisher @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Jared wrote: > Hello I got zipspeak from the ftp sight since after messing arround with > partitions and not setting the write one active I didn't get redhat > installed. I think I will use zipspeak for a little while and install debian > on my 4 gig d drive since it is smaller then redhat if I like it. My > question is where to go for doccumentation on the packiges included. I've > been listening to the look at linux series on acb radio and that has helped > but where do I go for stuff like how to use the vi text editor? Also if > someone could help me out with where to get emacs and the voice engines for > software speack I'd appreciate it. Okay, well I'll start at the end. I'm not really an expert on Emacs etc, but Emacs itself, you'd probably be best to get it from the Slackware ftp site, since you've already installed Zipspeak, thisshould minimise any compatibility issues etc. As for speech engines etc, your best bet is probably to take a look on freshmeat.net, if you put emacs or emacs-speak into the search engine you should have some joy. This is one thing I'd recommend for anything you need to find, even documentation, as freshmeat will often guide you to a package's web site which will contain the latest information. Also, for more general documentation on a range of Linux issues, try http://www.linuxdoc.org In addition, I don't know about Zipspeak because I've not used it, but on my system /usr/doc has loads and loads of directories for individual packages, as well as 2 great ones called Linux-HOWTOs and Linux-mini-HOWTOs (note the capitalisation). Last, but definitely not least, you can always try typing man <command>. Hope this helps. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby@g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* RE: Where to go now ` Toby Fisher @ ` Jared ` Toby Fisher ` Thomas D. Ward 0 siblings, 2 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Jared @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup I've done the man command and just by looking at some of the stuff its helped. This install was about a 30 meg download and I didn't find a lot of docs. When I did the man command followed by vi I didn't get anything but saw the vi text editor refferenced in the man entry on shutdown. What does this mean? -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Toby Fisher Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 8:29 PM To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Where to go now On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Jared wrote: > Hello I got zipspeak from the ftp sight since after messing arround with > partitions and not setting the write one active I didn't get redhat > installed. I think I will use zipspeak for a little while and install debian > on my 4 gig d drive since it is smaller then redhat if I like it. My > question is where to go for doccumentation on the packiges included. I've > been listening to the look at linux series on acb radio and that has helped > but where do I go for stuff like how to use the vi text editor? Also if > someone could help me out with where to get emacs and the voice engines for > software speack I'd appreciate it. Okay, well I'll start at the end. I'm not really an expert on Emacs etc, but Emacs itself, you'd probably be best to get it from the Slackware ftp site, since you've already installed Zipspeak, thisshould minimise any compatibility issues etc. As for speech engines etc, your best bet is probably to take a look on freshmeat.net, if you put emacs or emacs-speak into the search engine you should have some joy. This is one thing I'd recommend for anything you need to find, even documentation, as freshmeat will often guide you to a package's web site which will contain the latest information. Also, for more general documentation on a range of Linux issues, try http://www.linuxdoc.org In addition, I don't know about Zipspeak because I've not used it, but on my system /usr/doc has loads and loads of directories for individual packages, as well as 2 great ones called Linux-HOWTOs and Linux-mini-HOWTOs (note the capitalisation). Last, but definitely not least, you can always try typing man <command>. Hope this helps. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby@g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* RE: Where to go now ` Jared @ ` Toby Fisher ` Thomas D. Ward 1 sibling, 0 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Toby Fisher @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Jared wrote: > I've done the man command and just by looking at some of the stuff its > helped. This install was about a 30 meg download and I didn't find a lot of > docs. When I did the man command followed by vi I didn't get anything but > saw the vi text editor refferenced in the man entry on shutdown. What does > this mean? Ok, vi is a bit of an exception to most doc rules. If you want to look at the man page, try man elvis, and don't be put off by hat it says about X11. If you want to read the help, well from within vi you can type :h enter, but this probably isn't the best way to read it. Since it's written in html, you could use lynx, with a command like lynx file://localhost/usr/share/elvis-2.1_4/elvis.html not forgetting your favourite command-line switches. N.b. this is the file called by the help from within vi, so I know it's the right one. Vi is just an aliased command or symlink to elvis, by the looks of it. Actually it's pretty cool, if, for any reason, you shut don uncleanly, you get an email from Elvis for each file you had open, telling you how to recover it, neat. As for grabbing other docs, if you look on the slackware ftp site, in the slackware-8.0 archive, you should find a directory under Slakware called something doc1, and I think another one called faq1. I'd recommend downloading the contents of these, and then for each file ending in .tgz, run the following as root: installpkg <package_name> Good luck. Cheers. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby@g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* RE: Where to go now ` Jared ` Toby Fisher @ ` Thomas D. Ward 1 sibling, 0 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Thomas D. Ward @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi, if you want apps for Zipspeak go to the slackware site, and download the slackware packages from there fpt site. It works with all the slackware distributions. They have a folder called aps1, get that, also get d1, and n1, and e1. On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Jared wrote: > I've done the man command and just by looking at some of the stuff its > helped. This install was about a 30 meg download and I didn't find a lot of > docs. When I did the man command followed by vi I didn't get anything but > saw the vi text editor refferenced in the man entry on shutdown. What does > this mean? > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Toby Fisher > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 8:29 PM > To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: Where to go now > > > On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Jared wrote: > > > Hello I got zipspeak from the ftp sight since after messing arround with > > partitions and not setting the write one active I didn't get redhat > > installed. I think I will use zipspeak for a little while and install > debian > > on my 4 gig d drive since it is smaller then redhat if I like it. My > > question is where to go for doccumentation on the packiges included. I've > > been listening to the look at linux series on acb radio and that has > helped > > but where do I go for stuff like how to use the vi text editor? Also if > > someone could help me out with where to get emacs and the voice engines > for > > software speack I'd appreciate it. > > Okay, well I'll start at the end. > > I'm not really an expert on Emacs etc, but Emacs itself, you'd probably be > best to get it from the Slackware ftp site, since you've already installed > Zipspeak, thisshould minimise any compatibility issues etc. As for speech > engines etc, your best bet is probably to take a look on freshmeat.net, if > you put emacs or emacs-speak into the search engine you should have some > joy. > This is one thing I'd recommend for anything you need to find, even > documentation, as freshmeat will often guide you to a package's web site > which will contain the latest information. > > Also, for more general documentation on a range of Linux issues, try > http://www.linuxdoc.org > > In addition, I don't know about Zipspeak because I've not used it, but on > my system /usr/doc has loads and loads of directories for individual > packages, as well as 2 great ones called Linux-HOWTOs and > Linux-mini-HOWTOs (note the capitalisation). Last, but definitely not > least, you can always try typing man <command>. > > Hope this helps. > > -- > Toby Fisher Email: toby@g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk > Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 > ICQ: #61744808 > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Where to go now ` Where to go now Jared ` Toby Fisher @ ` Thomas D. Ward ` 'Georgina' ` Doug Lawlor ` Alex Snow 3 siblings, 1 reply; 36+ messages in thread From: Thomas D. Ward @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hello. If you want help setting this stuff email me privately. Perhaps we can arrange a phone support. Get yourself a calling card, and I can walk you through setting this stuff up. As for documentation start with linuxdocl.org. It is a great resource for howtows, faq, and other documentations. As for emacspeak I'll get that out to you shortly. I had a major problems with my machine was unable to get it to you. On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Jared wrote: > Hello I got zipspeak from the ftp sight since after messing arround with > partitions and not setting the write one active I didn't get redhat > installed. I think I will use zipspeak for a little while and install debian > on my 4 gig d drive since it is smaller then redhat if I like it. My > question is where to go for doccumentation on the packiges included. I've > been listening to the look at linux series on acb radio and that has helped > but where do I go for stuff like how to use the vi text editor? Also if > someone could help me out with where to get emacs and the voice engines for > software speack I'd appreciate it. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Where to go now ` Thomas D. Ward @ ` 'Georgina' 0 siblings, 0 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: 'Georgina' @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi Just a note: If you are going to be looking at emacs and emacspeak, I'd forget vi for a while. The learning curves are steep for each and doubling up will only prove to be frustrating. Because I lost all my data I don't have the URL but there's a really good tutorial on the web, from the vi lovers home page, I think but I'm sure you'll find it quite easily. Emacs comes with a tutorial as a part of the package but personally, it's not as good as the vi lessons. Same with the speech solutions, focus on one at a time along with one editor. There's not much to learn with Speakup but there's a considerable amount with emacspeak. I suggest you pace yourself and try to deal with as few new things as possible. GNU / Linux is so different to MS products that there's a big enough challenge in itself. Good luck and enjoy Gena Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org > >Hello. If you want help setting this stuff email me privately. Perhaps we >can arrange a phone support. >Get yourself a calling card, and I can walk you through setting this stuff >up. >As for documentation start with linuxdocl.org. >It is a great resource for howtows, faq, and other documentations. >As for emacspeak I'll get that out to you shortly. I had a major problems >with my machine was unable to get it to you. > >On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Jared wrote: > >> Hello I got zipspeak from the ftp sight since after messing arround with >> partitions and not setting the write one active I didn't get redhat >> installed. I think I will use zipspeak for a little while and install debian >> on my 4 gig d drive since it is smaller then redhat if I like it. My >> question is where to go for doccumentation on the packiges included. I've >> been listening to the look at linux series on acb radio and that has helped >> but where do I go for stuff like how to use the vi text editor? Also if >> someone could help me out with where to get emacs and the voice engines for >> software speack I'd appreciate it. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Where to go now ` Where to go now Jared ` Toby Fisher ` Thomas D. Ward @ ` Doug Lawlor ` Alex Snow 3 siblings, 0 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Doug Lawlor @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:09:52PM -0800, Jared wrote: > question is where to go for doccumentation on the packiges included. The man pages contain a lot of information. Just type 'man command' where command is the command you are interested in. If you are looking for something you do not know the name of just type 'apropos' along with a keyword you think the command may be associated with and you will get a list of entries that have that keyword in there man pages. Doug ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Where to go now ` Where to go now Jared ` (2 preceding siblings ...) ` Doug Lawlor @ ` Alex Snow 3 siblings, 0 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Alex Snow @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup www.linuxdoc.org helps a lot. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jared" <jared-stofflett@twmi.rr.com> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 11:09 PM Subject: Where to go now > Hello I got zipspeak from the ftp sight since after messing arround with > partitions and not setting the write one active I didn't get redhat > installed. I think I will use zipspeak for a little while and install debian > on my 4 gig d drive since it is smaller then redhat if I like it. My > question is where to go for doccumentation on the packiges included. I've > been listening to the look at linux series on acb radio and that has helped > but where do I go for stuff like how to use the vi text editor? Also if > someone could help me out with where to get emacs and the voice engines for > software speack I'd appreciate it. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Adding programs ` Igor Gueths ` jwantz @ ` Keith Heltsley 1 sibling, 0 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Keith Heltsley @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup I've been busily reading doc all afternoon. Thanks for the info on getting to the floppy and CD drives. I'm still looking for a way to add packages. I found something in linux-faq about it but doesn't RedHat have a RPM tool or something to facilitate matters? So far, I'm pretty impressed with SpeakUp and the way it works. I just gotta get used to the navigation and stop using the NumPad like it was Jaws. *grin* If I hit anymore snags with things, I'll give you all a yell. from Keith H. The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* RE: Adding programs ` Adding programs Igor Gueths ` Charles Hallenbeck @ ` Georgina Joyce ` Janina Sajka 2 siblings, 0 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Georgina Joyce @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi I like Notespad, its a very good replacement for notepad and allows you to do a number of cool things. Including dos to unix and unix to dos. Welcome to Notespad! That's Notespad with an S! When you get a chance, please press F1 for help and then go to the "Using Notespad as Notepad" topic for information on how to make Notespad replace your Windows Notepad. Of course this is optional - but quite useful! Then please go to the "Introduction to Notespad" topic to check out some of Notespad's neat features. If you want free Notespad dictionary files and additional text clip category files, you can pick them up at www.BremerCorp.com. Notespad is freeware. Do not sell it to anyone, but give it to everyone. Enjoy! Please see the WhatsNew.txt file for recent improvements. -Bremer Corporation -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Igor Gueths Sent: 29 March 2002 19:41 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Adding programs Hi Keith. You can get a program called dos2unix, which will convert your text files from win format to a unix format. It is esentially removing the linefeeds and other chars from the file. I forget where to get it, if I find it I'll post the url. I found the site through google though. Hope this helps. Igor ----- Original Message ----- From: Keith Heltsley <keithh432@yahoo.com> To: SpeakUp List <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 2:27 PM Subject: Adding programs > I managed to spend some time at my windows machine to look at some howto's > and other docs. I still don't know how to get lynx and emacspeak loaded on > the newly installed /RedHat box. > > How do import text files that I created in my windows box? > > from > Keith Heltsley > > The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Adding programs ` Adding programs Igor Gueths ` Charles Hallenbeck ` Georgina Joyce @ ` Janina Sajka 2 siblings, 0 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup He doesn't need to get it because he already has it. He just needs to know to use it. It's included in the distro he installed. On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi Keith. You can get a program called dos2unix, which will convert your text files from win format to a unix format. It is esentially removing the linefeeds and other chars from the file. I forget where to get it, if I find it I'll post the url. I found the site through google though. Hope this helps. > > Igor > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Keith Heltsley <keithh432@yahoo.com> > To: SpeakUp List <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 2:27 PM > Subject: Adding programs > > > > I managed to spend some time at my windows machine to look at some howto's > > and other docs. I still don't know how to get lynx and emacspeak loaded on > > the newly installed /RedHat box. > > > > How do import text files that I created in my windows box? > > > > from > > Keith Heltsley > > > > The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Adding programs Adding programs Keith Heltsley ` jwantz ` Adding programs Igor Gueths @ ` Thomas D. Ward ` Urgent please help! Thomas Ward ` Adding programs Janina Sajka 3 siblings, 1 reply; 36+ messages in thread From: Thomas D. Ward @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: SpeakUp List Hi, assuming red Hat didn't ready put them in you could use rpm to install them. Find the rpm files you need and do a: rpm -iv programname.i386.rpm On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Keith Heltsley wrote: > I managed to spend some time at my windows machine to look at some howto's > and other docs. I still don't know how to get lynx and emacspeak loaded on > the newly installed /RedHat box. > > How do import text files that I created in my windows box? > > from > Keith Heltsley > > The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Urgent please help! ` Thomas D. Ward @ ` Thomas Ward ` Janina Sajka ` (3 more replies) 0 siblings, 4 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Thomas Ward @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup; +Cc: awesome-dave1 Hello, everyone. I have an emergency and like to have some help as soon as humanly possible Ok, here is the deal. For some reason my Red Hat 7.2 box got locked up, and after rebooting the file system got fried. Needless to say it contains all my important information, as well as mp3s, books, etc.Reinstalling Red Hat this time is not an option. Also I need to replace my burner, because of problems with it, and so backing up the drive at this point is also impossible, and I need to know of any tools to fix this problem. Is there any type of sscandisk like programs to fix the file system. Tell me what I need, where to get it, and how to use it, because I've never had this problem before. Thanks, and please, please, someone help me. I need to fix this problem as soon as possible. . ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Urgent please help! ` Urgent please help! Thomas Ward @ ` Janina Sajka ` Thomas Ward ` Geoff Shang ` (2 subsequent siblings) 3 siblings, 1 reply; 36+ messages in thread From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup; +Cc: awesome-dave1 OK, calm down, it's probably not as bad as you think, though I can certainly understand that whatever has happened is unerving you. First, let's take up first things. What exactly do you mean "fried?" I don't believe there is such an error message. So, do you eactually mean cumbusted in some kind of conflagration? Or is this a more prosaic problem that we can probably rescue with linux rescue or single user mode? Do you know about those? Most to the point, what is the error message? What doesn't work. On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hello, everyone. I have an emergency and like to have some help as soon as > humanly possible Ok, here is the deal. > For some reason my Red Hat 7.2 box got locked up, and after rebooting the > file system got fried. Needless to say it contains all my important > information, as well as mp3s, books, etc.Reinstalling Red Hat this time is > not an option. Also I need to replace my burner, because of problems with > it, and so backing up the drive at this point is also impossible, and I need > to know of any tools to fix this problem. > Is there any type of sscandisk like programs to fix the file system. Tell me > what I need, where to get it, and how to use it, because I've never had this > problem before. > Thanks, and please, please, someone help me. I need to fix this problem as > soon as possible. > > . > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Urgent please help! ` Janina Sajka @ ` Thomas Ward ` Kerry Hoath 0 siblings, 1 reply; 36+ messages in thread From: Thomas Ward @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hello, ok here is what is up with my drive. It will boot, but it has alot of input output errors. Also when logging into root all it says is bash and the bash version. No matter what you type. When I tried running shutdown with the -h now option it says program not found. Also it gives me input output errors when trying to mount /mnt/floppy and /mnt/cdrom. Everything was working fine until my system locked up, and I was forced to switch it off manually. After that everything has been acting weird, and it refuses to shutt itself down properly. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Urgent please help! ` Thomas Ward @ ` Kerry Hoath 0 siblings, 0 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Kerry Hoath @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup /mnt/floppy is the floppy drive and /mnt/cdrom is your cdrom. If you are getting i/o erros on the hard disk like hda: i/o error sector nnnnn uncorrectable error drive ready seek complete you have a hard disk that has failed. It has probably exceeded the bad sector count that can be a utomatically be remapped by the drive. You might get things off the drive but it's a case of backing up what you n_need_ to keep and backing up more often. I have had plenty of drives fail in my time, if you have no backups you just get drunk and deal with the loss next day :-) Regards, Kerry. On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 08:17:46PM -0500, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hello, ok here is what is up with my drive. It will boot, but it has alot of > input output errors. Also when logging into root all it says is bash and the > bash version. No matter what you type. > When I tried running shutdown with the -h now option it says program not > found. > Also it gives me input output errors when trying to mount /mnt/floppy and > /mnt/cdrom. > Everything was working fine until my system locked up, and I was forced to > switch it off manually. After that everything has been acting weird, and it > refuses to shutt itself down properly. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry@gotss.net kerry@gotss.eu.org or kerry@gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry@gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath@yahoo.com.au ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Urgent please help! ` Urgent please help! Thomas Ward ` Janina Sajka @ ` Geoff Shang ` Thomas Ward ` William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 ` Igor Gueths 3 siblings, 1 reply; 36+ messages in thread From: Geoff Shang @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi: Linux does have a scandisk type program, it's called fsck and should run automatically. I'm going to assume you're using an ext2 filesystem. Can't help you if you're not, sorry, though others probably can. I'm also going to assume the fsck failed and it asked you to enter the root password for maintenance. Do this and you'll enter single user mode. Then run fsck manually on the root device that it failed on. It's a good idea to use the -y switch so that it doesn't prompt you for everything, this can be tedious if you don't do this. so if your root FS is /dev/hda1, type: fsck -y /dev/hda1 After it fixes everything, exit single user mode and the machine should go on to boot normally. If this is not what happened, let us know what the error was in as much detail as possible. Geoff. -- Geoff Shang <gshang@uq.net.au> ICQ number 43634701 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Urgent please help! ` Geoff Shang @ ` Thomas Ward 0 siblings, 0 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Thomas Ward @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Ok, I am back up and running. Thanks for the help everyone. There may be a problem with my drive, and I'm going to check it out. So I am going to get my cdrw replaced as soon as possible so I can backup everything before my hard drive possably goes down. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Urgent please help! ` Urgent please help! Thomas Ward ` Janina Sajka ` Geoff Shang @ ` William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 ` Igor Gueths 3 siblings, 0 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup; +Cc: awesome-dave1 Hi, Either call me at the number at the top of this message or send me yours. I should be able to help you get up and running. Same goes for Jared. Bill in Denver On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hello, everyone. I have an emergency and like to have some help as soon as > humanly possible Ok, here is the deal. > For some reason my Red Hat 7.2 box got locked up, and after rebooting the > file system got fried. Needless to say it contains all my important > information, as well as mp3s, books, etc.Reinstalling Red Hat this time is > not an option. Also I need to replace my burner, because of problems with > it, and so backing up the drive at this point is also impossible, and I need > to know of any tools to fix this problem. > Is there any type of sscandisk like programs to fix the file system. Tell me > what I need, where to get it, and how to use it, because I've never had this > problem before. > Thanks, and please, please, someone help me. I need to fix this problem as > soon as possible. > > . > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Urgent please help! ` Urgent please help! Thomas Ward ` (2 preceding siblings ...) ` William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 @ ` Igor Gueths 3 siblings, 0 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Igor Gueths @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi Thomas. Do you happen to have any boot floppies to boot a rescue kernel? How exactly did your redhat box lock up? I think I can help you, I just need a little more detail. Can you not boot from the hard disk? Do you get any fs-type errors? Do you get a vfs kernel panic that it can't mount the root filesystem? Or does the system just hang at boot-time? If you had a distro such as Debian, FSCK would take care of most filesystem problems. However, I am not sure as to what type of filesystem tools that Redhat uses. I can try to look this up though. On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hello, everyone. I have an emergency and like to have some help as soon as > humanly possible Ok, here is the deal. > For some reason my Red Hat 7.2 box got locked up, and after rebooting the > file system got fried. Needless to say it contains all my important > information, as well as mp3s, books, etc.Reinstalling Red Hat this time is > not an option. Also I need to replace my burner, because of problems with > it, and so backing up the drive at this point is also impossible, and I need > to know of any tools to fix this problem. > Is there any type of sscandisk like programs to fix the file system. Tell me > what I need, where to get it, and how to use it, because I've never had this > problem before. > Thanks, and please, please, someone help me. I need to fix this problem as > soon as possible. > > . > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Adding programs Adding programs Keith Heltsley ` (2 preceding siblings ...) ` Thomas D. Ward @ ` Janina Sajka ` Keith Heltsley 3 siblings, 1 reply; 36+ messages in thread From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: SpeakUp List You have two choices about text files on floppies: 1.) Copy them into a directory on your hard drive using mcopy. Do mcopy to learn about mtools commands. 2.) Mount the floppy and read them directly. This would be a command something like: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy PS: You should probably also learn about unix2dos and dos2unix. Again, the man page for these commands will help. On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Keith Heltsley wrote: > I managed to spend some time at my windows machine to look at some howto's > and other docs. I still don't know how to get lynx and emacspeak loaded on > the newly installed /RedHat box. > > How do import text files that I created in my windows box? > > from > Keith Heltsley > > The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
* Re: Adding programs ` Adding programs Janina Sajka @ ` Keith Heltsley 0 siblings, 0 replies; 36+ messages in thread From: Keith Heltsley @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Thanks for the info on the mcopy commands. It took a little doing, but I did manage to mount the floppy, and CDROM too, and was able to do a cp to get what I needed transfered. from Keith H. --- You Wrote --- You have two choices about text files on floppies: 1.) Copy them into a directory on your hard drive using mcopy. Do mcopy to learn about mtools commands. 2.) Mount the floppy and read them directly. This would be a command something like: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy PS: You should probably also learn about unix2dos and dos2unix. Again, the man page for these commands will help. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 36+ messages in thread
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