Unix

[james collins]

This might be a liitle off topic, but I was wondering I downloaded  
yasr off the yasr website. I am kind of a unix newbie, I am used to  
running ms-dos. The file I downloaded is a .tar file. I looked on  
google and the command to unpack a .tar file is tar xvf filename.tar  
so to unpack the yasr file I would open terminal my unix command line  
application, navigate to my downloads folder. Find the file I  
downloaded which is called yasr-0.6.9.tar and at the command prompt  
type tar xvf yasr-0.6.9.tar and my computer should unpack the .tar  
file, does that sound right? I am wondering I want to use the yasr  
screen reader at the command line in terminal on my mac. Is there a  
special place where I would want to unpack the yasr .tar file? I want  
to be able to use the screen reader anywhere on my computer, i.e. any  
directory that I switch to on my hard drive. Anyway that would just  
unpack the file I still have to install it right? But I figured I  
would take it one step at a time, like I have to figure out where my  
serial port on my mac is, and I also have to get a cable and cable  
adaptor for my speech synthesizer which is a doubletalk but like I  
said I am trying to do it in steps. Any help would be appreciated.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 28, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com>  
wrote:

> Hello,
> I don't think you will get speakup working on MacOS (whatever  
> version you are using). Speakup is  built for the linux kernel and  
> so is quite specific to linux (it won't work on many other unix  
> systems eg. solaris, freebsd, etc). The only way I can imagine you  
> will get speakup working is to install linux on the Mac (may it be  
> either as a dual boot or to replace MacOS), but I don't think that  
> is what you wanted.
>
> Anyway something which might help you, there are a few other screen  
> readers for unix text terminals, the one which comes to mind is YASR  
> which I think works on a number of different unix systems (it works  
> on other systems as it doesn't integrate so tightly with the systems  
> kernel). Another alternative, although more orientated for Braille  
> display support is brltty.
>
> As suggested by Hermann, if your Mac is running Leopard then why not  
> use voiceover, unless you are planning to move to linux.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On -10/01/37 20:59, james collins wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am a speakup newbie. I own a MacBook pro laptop running mac os x  
>> 10.5.7 I think. I was just wondering if I could use speakup with  
>> this computer, from what I know the mac os is a version of unix. I  
>> want to use speakup at the command line, there is a program called  
>> terminal on my laptop and when I open it it opens a unix shell I  
>> think. I just wondered if I could configure speakup to work on my  
>> laptop or do I have to be running Linux, also I wondered if there  
>> is a big difference between Linux and unix. Any help would be  
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>
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