Making progress

[Thomas Ward]

Hi, I think freedom scientific still has a copy of the Jaws for Dos 
shareware on their site. If not I'll send you a copy of the shareware 
version, and it might help solve the zipspeak problem.
http://www.freedomscientific.com
I used it quite a bit myself in looking for errors in loadlin.

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Angelo Sonnesso wrote:

> 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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