4DOS

[Nick Stockton]

It does for me.
The hard part is finding a computer with a serial port.
If you want to spend twice as much you can get a trippletalk USB but I don't 
know if it is 100% compatible with the doubletalk so not sure if it would 
work using speakup's doubletalk drivers
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "josh" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: 4DOS


> will it work in windows xp with jaws or window-eyes?
>
> Josh
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> email: jkenn337 at gmail.com
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Nick Stockton" <nstockton at gmail.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:37 PM
> Subject: Re: 4DOS
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>
>> You can still buy the doubletalk lt from rc systems for $200
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "josh" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:19 PM
>> Subject: Re: 4DOS
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> How much can you get an external doubletalk for these days? or an artic
>>> or
>>> accent synth?
>>>
>>> email: jkenn337 at gmail.com
>>> skype: jkenn337
>>> msn: kenn6498ku at hotmail.com
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Gaijin" <gaijin at clearwire.net>
>>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:13 PM
>>> Subject: Re: 4DOS
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:32:57PM -0500, Doug Smith wrote:
>>>>> What I want to do is to write a science fi???tion story series, put up
>>>>> a
>>>>> web site, and publish this story series for sale.  However, I don't
>>>>> want to have to do it with a text editor.  I want real word processing
>>>>> software to do it with.
>>>> :End-Quote:
>>>>
>>>> Have you tried contacting ExLibris?  They will often take on new
>>>> authors and publish their works on the web, rather than going through
>>>> the trouble of running off a full-fledged printing that may or may not
>>>> sell.  As for jstar, it's likely only a text editor with WordStar key
>>>> commands.  Even WordStar professional used dot-commands to modify text
>>>> attributes, since it wasn't a GUI word processor.  You get the same
>>>> effect by using tron/troff commands in a document in *nix.   A couple
>>>> keystrokes would hide or display those dot-commands, as well as the
>>>> carriage returns at the end of each paragraph.  WordStar Pro would just
>>>> save each paragraph as a single line of text, but display it on-screen
>>>> as being wrapped, as well as line text up on the right margin as well 
>>>> as
>>>> the left, so it looked like your typical printed page.  It did have a
>>>> graphical print preview that would show you what the eventual printed
>>>> page would look like though, but it was a CLI/text-only word processor.
>>>> Since I barely have the GUI working on this thing, I can't tell
>>>> you much more about the word processors in linux.  Perhaps Open Office.
>>>> Also, O'Reilly's tech manuals very closely match their HTML  versions
>>>> published on the web, so you might consider using HTML to format your
>>>> text, rather than tron and troff.  I never really got into the printing
>>>> aspects of Linux.  linuxprinting.org might have more info on the
>>>> subject.  HTH,
>>>>
>>>> Michael
>>>>
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