Making progress

Angelo Sonnesso asonnesso at coastalnet.com
Mon Nov 19 23:24:34 EST 2001


where did you find those files?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <tward at bright.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: Making progress


> Hi, if you have an old dos screen reader such as Jaws For Dos or Vocal
Eyes
> you can load that before running loadlin and that usually worked in
getting
> error messages
> spoken. However, if it is a kernel panic error of some kind or an error
> encountered after your machine loads Linux you will need to get those
errors
> with sited assistance assuming that Speakup hasn't loaded.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glenn Ervin" <gervin at kdsi.net>
> To: "linux - speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 12:14 AM
> Subject: Making progress
>
>
> > Hello group,
> > I downloaded zipslack.zip.
> > I have a removable drive D:, and I unzipped it into that drive.
> > I have downloaded many speakup files and I have put them into the
d:\linux
> > directory.
> > This harddrive is a little over 200MB.
> > I am using a DECtalk express on Comm1.
> > I also edited the linux.bat file to have one of the lines to read:
> > d:\linux\loadlin
> > I rebooted into DOS and ran linux.bat and it ran for a few seconds, and
it
> > may have been ready to work, but I could not know what was on the
screen.
> > Question:
> > How do I tell it to recognize the DECtalk on Com1?
> > I hope I do not have to use sighted assistance to get this going.
> > I look forward to any input.
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > O. Glenn Ervin-- (Lenny) N0YJV
> > Northeast Nebraska
> > gervin at kdsi.net
> > or My Work e-mail:
> > gervin at ncbvi.state.ne.us
> >
> >
> >
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