Zipspeak Site Unavailable

[Saqib Shaikh]

hi victor,
i never knew that anyone actually put zipslack onto a zip disk. does it
matter that it is 150 mb instead of 100 mb?
saqib

----- Original Message -----
From: "Buddy Brannan" <davros at ycardz.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: Zipspeak Site Unavailable


> Hi Saqib,
>
> Just a guess, but you won't get Speakup and Emacspeak into
> Zipspeak. Reason being: Emacs is to freakin huge, which would make the
> distro too large to fit on the target Zip disk media. However, at
> least Slack 7.0 had something called "Bigslack", which was a larger
> version of Zipslack, including KDE and a bunch of other stuff, all to
> reside on a UMSDOS file system as Zipspeak does. Perhaps a Bigspeak
> distro could accommodate both Emacspeak and Speakup? Only thing is, we
> might wanna get modified Emacspeak servers such as Matt did with the
> Doubletalk server that will address /dev/synth so that one synth can
> be used for both programs. I suspect you could not bundle in IBM
> ViaVoice for Emacspeak in this theoretical version due to licensing
> restrictions on ViaVoice. So Matt, are you up for modifying speech
> servers? :)
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