4DOS

[Beth Hatch]

Hello Alex and all,

I contacted Gibson Research about making this program accessible. The
support agent said some blind person had put Spin Rite on a CD with a screen
reader and made it work but when I asked for more information than that, the
agent couldn't give me any further information.

Thanks,

Beth 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Alex Snow
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 11:37 AM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: 4DOS

I believe, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, that spinrite isn't
accessible with a dos screenreader since it puts the screen in graphics
mode.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:45:11AM -0700, Beth Hatch
wrote:
> Hello John and all,
> 
> I'm just wondering.......  I have a version of the Spin Rite hard drive
> maintenance utility which boots as a CD using Free Dos.  It should be
> theoretically possible to make a bootable spin rite cd using JAWS and Free
> Dos then.  I unfortunately don't have a Double talk, but I do have a
Dectalk
> Express.  I tried to install JAWS on a bootable cd, but I got into trouble
> somehow and though I found the floppy images that I downloaded from
Freedom
> Scientific, I wasn't able to get them installed on to a CD.  I have a
badly
> broken desktop pc that needs Spin Rite very badly to fix the hard drive,
it
> would be really cool if I could use JAWS and Free Dos to make this work.
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Beth 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of John G. Heim
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 9:40 AM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: 4DOS
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gaijin" <gaijin at clearwire.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> >
> > Think it would be nice to collect all this old stuff and put it on a 
> > CD or DVD iso image.  I wonder what some of these defunct companies 
> > would say if we asked them to release the old, no longer supported 
> > source code to the GPL.  I miss the old WordStar Professional word 
> > processor.
> >
> 
> By and large they'd say no.  I've seen it tried many times and mostly you
> get no answer or a refusal. I think these people still have lawyers
telling
> them it's a bad idea. Maybe they have something to hide within their code
--
> like that it wasn't entirely their own in the first place.
> 
> Anyway, I don't know anything about 4dos but the FreeDOS project is alive
> and well. Their mailing list is very active (google it). Anyone interested
> in DOS applications should definately check out FreeDOS. For instance, I
> know that Jaws for DOS; which is a free download on the Freedom Scientific
> web site; runs under FreeDOS.
> 
> I have a diskette image on my web site that allows you to boot freeDOS
with
> jaws for DOS. It's configured to start talking with an external doubletalk
> hardware synth. In other words, if you have a doubletalk, you can boot
from
> this diskette and get speech. See:
> 
> http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/blindi/FreeDOS-ltlk.img
> 
> The diskette image also includes CD-ROM support. So, theoretically, you
can
> boot from a diskette made with this image and then access a CD-ROM. I was
> hoping to install Windows this way. But the Windows installer craps out
when
> run under FreeDOS. However, you should be able to make a bootable CD-ROM
> with this image.
> 
> 
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