RE: Where to go now

["Thomas D. Ward" <tward@bright.net>]

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.
> 
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