Hello all

[brent harding]

Has a screen reader for x-windows been developed yet? Can a totally blind
person at all use a computer that runs x applications? Can it be done
through normal windows-98? I suppose some of the tasks could be
accomplished without it, but if they use special programs to add users so
that not every employee who has to add users needs the root password, I've
heard programs like that interface with x. I hear we're missing out on a
great deal with the lack of such a screen reader, but haven't yet found
things I need to do that require it. I suppose databases would be one major
one I could bring to mind.
At 03:01 PM 6/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I like to use exceed.  It is a package of various clients (ftp, telnet
>rlogin ...).  It is not share ware.  Williams puts it on all their issued
>laptops.  It has an X server which is some what usable.
>
>The telnet.exe which comes with windows is almost useless.  I very much
>agree linux is the way to go.
>
>Where do you get coment?  Is it shareware or freeware?
>Terry
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Wantz [mailto:jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov]
>Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 2:38 PM
>To: 'speakup at braille.uwo.ca'
>Subject: RE: Hello all
>
>
>Hey Terry,
>The question is: "what telnet program do you use to access your UNIX boxes
>from WINDOWS?  I have found that comnet works better than the stock telnet
>that comes with WINDOWS.  Unfortunately coment works a little better with
>WINDOW-EYES than with JFW.  Of course Linux telnet works the best.
>
>Brent, if you happen to be running the csh or tcsh shells on your isp the
>following is the equivalent of what Terry did with ksh:
>setenv TERM vt100
>
>     Jim
>
>
>On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Klarich, Terry wrote:
>
>> Hey brent:
>> 
>> Well, Williams provides me a laptop.  On my laptop, I am running (or
>trying
>> to run) windows.  I use both jfw and jfd.
>> 
>> When my laptop  is docked, I have an ethernet connection to all the
>machines
>> I am responsible for.  I use telnet from my laptop to connect.
>> 
>> When I am in the data center, I use a serial connection directly from my
>> laptop to the console port of the machine I am working on.  We do not put
>> keyboards or monitors on our equipment in the data center.  In fact, I
>don't
>> know any organization that does.
>> 
>> It sounds like you were unable to edit a file properly because your TERM
>> environment variable was not set properly.  Generally, you should use
>vt100.
>> With ksh as your shell do:
>> 
>> TERM=vt100
>> export TERM
>> 
>> Note, "TERM" is in caps.
>> 
>> Terry
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: brent harding [mailto:bharding at greenbaynet.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 1:02 PM
>> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>> Subject: RE: Hello all
>> 
>> 
>> How do you access these type of systems with speech? Does speakup work on
>> those machines, or how do you edit files on those systems, because dos
>> communications programs don't edit remote files easily. I messed up my
>> shell account on my old provider because the arrow keys actually send
>weird
>> stuff to the file.
>> At 08:53 AM 6/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
>> >Hey Jim:
>> >
>> >Thanks for the note on Bill being the person who built the redhat
>> >installation disks.  I plan to upgrade my home machine from 6.0 to 6.2
>this
>> >weekend by using speakup.  (Can't wait)!
>> >
>> >Actually, I am a senior systems analyst for Williams Communications group
>> >(wcg).  I primarily design and take care of large sun clusters running
>> >solaris.  We have some AIX and hpux equipment as well.
>> >
>> >Like you, I would not even consider installing redhat via ppp.
>> >
>> >Terry
>> >
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Jim Wantz [mailto:jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov]
>> >Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 2:55 PM
>> >To: 'speakup at braille.uwo.ca'
>> >Subject: RE: Hello all
>> >
>> >
>> >Hi Terry,
>> >And I thought I'd been around UNIX for a long time, my first exposure was
>> >with SUN/OS around 1992.  By the way, Bill Acker is the ultimate
>authority
>> >on which disk names are what, because he built the Redhat ones.  Though
>> >I've been programming in C since about the mid 80s, I know nothing about
>> >kernel hacking or drivers.  I sure want to learn though!
>> >
>> > PPP would be a very tough go for installing Linux.  I'm not even sure
>I'd
>> >want to try it from my cable modem--but the time required on a 56K
>> >connection would be ridiculous.  Go with the CD!
>> >
>> >     Jim WB0TFK
>> >
>> >
>> >
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