free terminal emulator for windows - download and install

Raul A. Gallegos raul at asmodean.net
Mon May 20 16:04:10 EDT 2002


No.  I believe the sets began shipping with window-eyes 4.0.
however if you can make the speak window around just the terminal 
screen part of teraterm it will work.

Write me off line if you want to know how to do this.

Gregory Nowak said
the following on Mon, May 20, 2002 at 03:00:26PM -0500:
> Is this true for wineyes 3.1, since that's what I own? I don't remember seeing sets for teraterm in there, but I'll try it out anyways, and see what the results are. Thanks.
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:36:48PM -0500, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
> > Window-eyes ships sets for teraterm which work very nicely out of 
> > the box.  All you have to make sure is that you are using a
> > vertical cursor shape in teraterm and you will be set.
> > 
> > Gregory Nowak said
> > the following on Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:54:01PM -0500:
> > > 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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