interesting experiment.

[Alex Snow]

Yeah, I like that Linux can have speach from powerup to shutdown.  In
winblows, You can get bootup errors, and not know what they are.  When I
suspect there is a problem, I don't bother get sited help.  Just yank out
the plug, curs a few times, and try again.
It's winblows, What can you expect!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Myrow" <myrow at eskimo.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: interesting experiment.


> A well-known trick to get old DOS screen readers to work in a DOS console
> under Windows 9X is to add "switches=/c" to your config.sys and of course,
> reboot.  I've never seen that switch documented by Microsoft, but I've
> seen it mentioned in several DOS games that came out after Windows 95.  I
> even remember reading a press release for ASAP bragging that you wouldn't
> need to use "switches=/c" with ASAP because it was so advanced.  Doubt any
> of those screen readers work with Win XP or 2K.  However, Speakup works
> with several Linux distros, and is the only screen reader to provide
> speech from power up to shut down.  It is free, too!  Despite my previous
> grumbles about it not having certain features, it's still the best free
> screen reader for any platform IMHO.
>
>
>
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