speakup 1.0 and slackware 8.0

[Reinhard Stebner]

but will the iso have speackup in it?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <tward at bright.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: speakup 1.0 and slackware 8.0


> Hi, my comments are below in the body of your last message.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Reinhard Stebner <raydar at tamu.edu>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 12:26 PM
> Subject: Re: speakup 1.0 and slackware 8.0
>
>
> > > Slackware 8 does come with talking boot disks and kernel.
> >
> > The only thing I found on the speakup web site was slackware 7.1 with
> > speaking boot disks.  Am I missing something?
>
> There are plenty of places to tget the 88.0 iso. Try:
> ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.0/isos/install.iso
>
> >
> > Thank you so much for your help it means a lot to me.  Here are some
more
> > newbee questions.  Could someone please explain how the man page works?
> (by
> > taking a man page and saying what all of the  [] {} and <> mean in
> context?
> >
>
> The man page program is the help system for Linux. It works a site better
> than Windows help, because you can jump strait to a specific topic.
> The book Red Hat Unleashed 4.0 which is in etext at
> http://www.blindprogramming.com has a good introduction to using man
>
> > How dows one read one screen at a time instead of one line at a time?
>
> If you are in an app such as pico a page up and page down will do this
using
> the page scrole keys located on the six key block next to the backspace
key.
> In man the spacebar takes you to the next page, and to review that page
> press the plus key on the numpad.
>
>
>  p> Is there a way to copy that page and save it and then braille out than
> man
> > page?
>
> Well, I'd have the entire manual entry converted into a text file, save
it,
> and then if you wanted it in braille you'd have to configure a braille
> printer under Linux.
> If you want it in grade two then you'd have to setup something like
megadots
> for dos using the dosemu program.
>
> >
> > Is there any way to have a braille device working with speakup?
>
> Not that I am aware of. However, there is an application called Brailletty
> that gives braille display support for the consol. You could try it and
see
> how it works.
>
> >
> > Where can I find more docs on the proper feeding and care of my new os?
>
> Well, there are many books and docs out there. For one see the
documentation
> cd found in the Red Hat 7.2 directory on the Speakup site.
> Also I have a book called Slackware Unleashed which is aging, but still is
a
> great book for beginners.
>
> >
> > What about speakup (see last quesion).
> >
> > How hard is it to find documentation on programming un unix/linux?
> > Is it quite differant from programming under dos?
>
> There are a handful of books that deal with Linux specific programming.
They
> are all made by Sam's publishing. Teach Yourself Linux C++ programming in
21
> days, Teach yourself Linux C programming in 24 hours, and teach yourself
> gtk+ programming in 21 days.
> I've been trying to get Sam's to make some etext copies for the blind, but
> so far no budge. So I've been forced to scan them, and they are not to
clean
> scanned.
> However, if you know c or C++ well enough programming in Linux is not that
> much different than in dos.
> There is also the perl language which is vary portible across platforms,
and
> > gtk+ is going to become vary useful to us as Gnopernicus nears
completion.
>
> > Final quesion, what are some do and don'ts when comming to:
> >
> > 1) installing and setting up the os
>
> Well, I'd put Linux on it's own computer if possible. I find it just
easier
> than having to manage a multiboot. If not possible i use a drive drawer
> system that allows me to remove my Linux drive, insert a Windows drive,
and
> switch between os's simply and without alot of fuss making a multiboot.
>
> > 2) running the os
>
> Linux is pretty tuff. You should always practice stuff as a normal user,
and
> not get in a habbit of doing things as root. Being root all the time leads
> to problems if you are not careful.
> I remember a friend of mine was going to remove a file from his /etc
folder
> and typed something like:
> rm -rf *
> Before he thought about what he was doing, and where he was, and he smoked
> his entire system. Caution as root is vary wize.
>
>
> > 3) upgrading
>
> When I upgrade I typically just do a from scratch install, but it is not
> necessary. You can upgrade any applications or system files you want, but
I
> tend to update the entire distribution when it comes out.
>
> > 4) speakups limitations when comming to the operating this os?
>
> Speakup is not a bad tts app, but it's biggest draw back is it will not
give
> you any speech access to the x-Windows server, x applications, or anything
> with alot of graphical widgits.
> However, Gnopernicus will be able to do that once it is finished, and
> released with Gnome 2.0.
> Speakup also has a problem with announcing which menu item it is on. In
> programs such as links it will often announce the link aabove the one you
> are on, or when going throu a menu driven tool such as linuxconf it will
say
> the item above the one you are on, and then the one you are on.
>
> If anyone knows how to fix this behavior please let me know.
>
>
>
> >
> > Thank you once again for your willingness to help me out.
> >
>
> No problem.
> >
> >
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