free terminal emulator for windows - download and install

[Alex Snow]

There is.  It's called console telnet and it's open source.  I don't
remember the url of the top of my head, but I can look it up.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Crawford" <ccrawford at acb.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: free terminal emulator for windows - download and install


> Window eyes uses the insert-a for speak all when you are in teraterm.
That
> program is not all that good from my experience.  I just wish there were a
> good dos telnet program that coudl run from the dos window..
>
> -- Charlie.
>
> At 12:54 PM 5/20/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >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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