4DOS

josh jkenn337 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 00:30:21 EST 2008


you could buy a serial card that you install in your computer which will 
give you serial ports.

Josh

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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 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: 4DOS


> 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
>>
>> email: jkenn337 at gmail.com
>> skype: jkenn337
>> msn: kenn6498ku at hotmail.com
>> ----- 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
>>
>>
>>> 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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