free terminal emulator for windows - download and install

[Gregory Nowak]

You mention jaws scripts. Are there window-eyes set files too? Or does it work fine without them.
Greg


On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:12:56PM -0400, Rich Caloggero wrote:
> Janina wrote:
> > > Another option would be a better screen reader for telnet and a
> > > better telnet client. That would mean a good DOS screen reader
> > > like asap or Vocal-Eyes, assuming he can actually run DOS on that
> > > Windows machine. Neither of those is very cheap, though, and
> 
> I use a free windows terminal emulator called teraterm. I redefine the jaws
> function sayNonHighlightedText to read everything appearing on the screen,
> as long as its not a menu or in a dialog box (about 7 lines of code. Go to
> http://barajas.mit.edu/teraterm/ to get the package. Just unzip it into a
> directory somewhere and click on ttermpro.exe for the standard version or
> ttssh.exe for the ssh version. Both report the application name is
> ttermpro.exe, so the jaws scripts will work regardless.
> The jaws scripts are in ttermpro.zip. Download this file, extract to your
> jaws scripts directory, and then either press enter on this script filename
> from within windows explorer or press insert+f2 and choose script manager
> and open the file from there. Once you have the file, press control+s to
> save and compile it. Now you should be able to run teraterm and jaws should
> speak correctly.
> 
> The real problem is text editing. I use ex (vi without the full-screen
> stuff - basically ed ), but only crazy people like me probably want to go
> this way. I need to try a full screen editor and make it work via a terminal
> emulator. VI might be a good choice, but the key bindings only make sense if
> you know about ed. What's the other choices for full screen editing which
> are *not* emacs? I've heard of something called vim (is this correct)?
> There's pico and probably others. I need to try and make this work for
> myself too, because using ex is nice in some ways, but its more typing than
> I really want to do with my RSI the way it is.
> 
> I can help more with this if needed. Its not the greatest solution, but it
> works very well for me. The terminal emulator is very very stable. Its
> worked on every version of windows I've tried it on with the same results.
> 
> Hope this helps someone -- Teddy especially. Please don't hesitate to ask me
> for more help. I will be unavailable for the next week or so, but after the
> 28th, I'll be able to answer e-mail again.
> 
>                     Rich Caloggero
>                     MIT Adaptive Tech. for Info and Computing
> 
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