FAQ

[Saqib Shaikh]

hi,
i use both windows and linux. i install a different distro of linux on
average every couple of weeks on various of my and my friends computers. i
have always used internet explorer with jfw, and rawriting the disks while
occasinoally checking progress with jfw is fine. however, if i minimise the
dos box where rawrite is working makes rawrite stop responding. if i
maximise the window it continues and the disk is always fine. downloading
disks in internet explorer is also always fine. however, today i had to
download a 25 meg shell script, and internet explorer thought it was a text
file. so it tried to open it there and then, which froze my computer for
ages. the solution, and this may help in other cases, is to install
getright, and let it catch clicks in i e. then i uninstalled getright since
i don't like it!
hope this is of some help.
saqib

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk Reiser" <kirk at braille.uwo.ca>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: FAQ


> Hi Anne:  You are right, except I haven't figured out how to express
> the problem as question and answer.  Maybe someone else can help with
> that.
>
> We have two problems which come up fairly often with new prospective
> speakup users: Rawriting a bad disk because the users screen reader
> got in the way; and not selecting the correct way to download in
> Internet Explorer.
>
> The first situation with rawrite is because rawrite.exe is a timing
> based copy program and most screen readers use interrupts to assure
> they get their fair share or more of the processor.  Usually all you
> need do is quiet speech while the copy is taking place.
>
> In the case of Internet Explorer, it assumes that all links are text
> and thus replaces 0x0d characters with 0x0d0a.  In other words adding
> an appropriate line feed.  Unfortunately, in the process of adding
> line feeds to a binary program you really screw up the instruction
> set.  So even if you rawrite the file correctly the downloading
> process fucked up the image.
>
> There is an option in I.E. under one of the menus, maybe file, which
> will download the file without translating.  I do not use windows so I
> can't tell you what the correct set of steps is for Internet
> Explorer.  Hopefully, someone else here will volunteer that procedure.
>
>   Kirk
>
> --
>
> Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility
> e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario
> phone: (519) 661-3061
>
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