Speakup or dectalk, and the answer?

[Jim Grimsby]

Hi, well I thought we were talking about changing settings in the bios.
If so the bios as I said does call these devices com x.   
My list of devices on this board show com 1 enabled.  So telling some
one to enable ttys0 in the bios would be wrong.  There is no such device
in the bios.  
Hth 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 6:00 PM
To: jaffar at jeffstudio.net; Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Speakup or dectalk, and the answer?


I didn't mean you. I understand you are new, so would expect you to use
terms you know.

However, others have responded and have not enlightened you as to the
correct Linux term--until today. That did not seem appropriate to me.

It's fine that we can translate terms among the various environments.
But, we should learn the environment specific terms for Linux, if we're
talking Linux. So, now you know.

jaffar at jeffstudio.net writes:
> Hi all.  Perhaps I must make my position clear here.  First, I have 
> but one
> and only one machine, and if I were to install Linux, I'll have to
share it 
> with an already installed Microsoft windows box.  Second, my dectalk 
> express hardware is installed and connected to com port 1, or ser 0 in
the 
> Linux equivalent, and since I'm not yet a linux expert like most of
you on 
> this list, I of course had to highlight my problem in a language that
I can 
> understand in the hope that those of you linux experts who've had 
> experience with the Microsoft Windows environment can help me with my 
> problem.  I am aware that this is a linux list, and I am aware that I
am 
> not a Linux freak by any stretch of the emagination.  But I am willing
to 
> learn a totally new environment to widen my knowledge in computers,
and 
> comments like these, far from helping, will surely turn me off and
away 
> from the linux OS that I was so keen to learn.  If i didn't have a
problem, 
> If my desire to install linux went as smooth as some of you had 
> encountered, I won't be struggling and asking these questions that I
deem 
> to be so important to get myself up and running.  I have spent
countless 
> hours downloading the various linux distros, trying my darndest to get
them 
> installed, all to no avail.  But i figure it will be comments like
these 
> that will turn me away, and not the installation struggles that I've
had to 
> go through.  So I'll get off this list and stick to what I know and be
all 
> the happier for it.  Cheers!
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Hofstader" <chris.hofstader at knology.net>
> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 10:01 PM
> Subject: RE: Speakup or dectalk, and the answer?
> 
> 
> >Hey Girlfriend, Microsoft has taken over everywhere, didn't you get 
> >the memo?  The W. Bush administration declared Windows to be the one 
> >true Operating Environment <smile>.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
> >[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> >On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
> >Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 8:54 AM
> >To: david at bruzos.org; Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> >Subject: Re: Speakup or dectalk, and the answer?
> >
> >What's with all this "com1" talk on this list. I don't believe there 
> >is such a thing on Linux. Or, has Microsoft taken over here too?
> >
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