Zipspeak Site Unavailable

Gene Collins collins at gene3.ait.iastate.edu
Fri Jul 6 17:11:55 EDT 2001


Oops!  Sory, sent a practice message to the list, ignore this please!!!

Gene

>I currently have it on a 250 mb zip disk, and it works fine.
>Greg
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>> ----- 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
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>>----- 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
>
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>>> 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? :)
>>> --
>>> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV    | History is made by stupid people.
>>> Email: davros at ycardz.com | Clever people wouldn't even try.
>>> Phone: (972) 276-6360    | If you want a place in the history books
>>> ICQ: 36621210            | Then do something dumb before you die.
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