Zipspeak Site Unavailable

[Gregory Nowak]

I currently have it on a 250 mb zip disk, and it works fine.
Greg



> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Saqib Shaikh" <ss at saqibshaikh.com
>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 06:41:52 +0100
>Subject: Re: Zipspeak Site Unavailable

>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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