Zipspeak Site Unavailable

[Dan Murphy]

If the person uses the 250 MB capacity Zipdisks, it would not be a
problem, but the older 100MB ones ...


On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote:

> 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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