free terminal emulator for windows - download and install

[Alex Snow]

The reason I like console telnet is because it's open source and I can get
the sourcecode if I need to make any changes.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: free terminal emulator for windows - download and install


> I used K95 with ASAP for years very effectively. I would expect
> it will still work very well. It isn't freeware, though, but it
> has been recently updated and now supports SSH as well as telnet.
> Check it out at:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
>
>
> Now, at the risk of offending some, may I add that ASAP yields
> more satisfactory results than Vocal-Eyes, in my experience? I've
> seen the "revector" setting work, and not work, for VE users, but
> I've not seen an ASAP problem with K95, or the Cygwin apps
> ever--at least not driving an internal Doubletalk
>
> Doubletalk seems to be a key. ASAP seems to be the second
> valuable tool.
>
> Now, if you're waiting to see good SSH and telnet accessibility
> out of software speech and the Windows GUI, you'll have to wait a
> very long time, because nobody is working on it, as far as I
> know. I guess it's just more of that disdain for command
> lines, fools that they are.
>
>
> On Mon, 20 May 2002, Charles Crawford wrote:
>
> > 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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>
> Janina Sajka, Director
> Technology Research and Development
> Governmental Relations Group
> American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
>
> Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
>
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