zipspeak status

[hank smith]

something I would love to run linux and not have to make a dule boot
last time I ran zipspeak was on win98 and I ran that bad boy from a dos box
oh god it was awesome
alas I don't have a speech synth that is hardware based no more, well I do 
but speakup don't support the keynote sa.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: zipspeak status


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> Yes, the ntfsrw support in stock linux kernels is limited, but you
> might want to look at captive-ntfs, for which I forget the web page
> for the moment. It does provide full r/w ntfs support, which will still 
> only
> leave the lack of umsdos, or a replacement for it actually.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:36:23PM -0400, Joshua Lambert wrote:
>> "Can you make it nt compatible while you're at it?" <snip>
>> Unfortunately, no.  Zipspeak runs on top of vfat partitions using the
>> umsdos filesystem.  And Linux only has limited write support for nt
>> partitions currently.
>> Also, it will still use the 2.4 kernel as the umsdos filesystem it 
>> depends
>> on has been removed from the kernel as of 2.6.8x I think.  No one has
>> fixed it in 2.6, so it has been suspended indefinitely.  And yes, 
>> zipspeak
>> is open-source.
>> Cheers,
>> Josh
>>
>>
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