Unix

Joshua Lambert montcalm at sdf.lonestar.org
Thu Jul 30 22:01:52 EDT 2009


Hi there,
The parms for the doubletalk over here are 9600 baud, no peroty, 8 bits, 
one stop bit, which would look like 9600 n 8 1 in a lot of docs.
Cheers,
Josh


On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, james collins wrote:

> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:27:47 -0400
> From: james collins <james.collins75 at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>     <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Subject: Re: Unix
> 
> One thing I am wondering about is the baud rate. I had my doubletalk working 
> once on an ms-dos computer running vocal eyes as my screen reader. I think 
> the mode command is used in ms-dos for com ports. And there is a way to set 
> the communication parameters with the mode command and I don't know if 
> doubletalk runs on like 9600 baud? Would I need to set this in unix on my 
> mac? There are other things like parity and some other parameters that I 
> don't know if I need to set? Like would my computer be able to communicate 
> with my doubletalk synthesizer?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 30, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Gregory Nowak <greg at romuald.net.eu.org> wrote:
>
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>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:39:45AM -0400, james collins wrote:
>>> I really
>>> didn't get any error messages during installation but I was looking at
>>> my computer at the command line after I tried to install yasr and there
>>> were a couple of no's. I don't know if this is normal or not, I am
>>> wondering if the computer couldn't write some files, or if it is normal
>>> on installation to have some no's?
>> 
>> If you got the no's in question when running ./configure, then that's
>> fine, especially if you get an executable at the end.
>> 
>>> Another thing I wondered if there is a way to uninstall yasr, like
>>> if I couldn't get it to work? I believe when I installed it, yasr wrote
>>> files in my directory structure, and I was wondering if I couldn't get it
>>> to work if there was a way to safely remove yasr and all of it's
>>> associated files? Any help would be appreciated.
>> 
>> Some software can be uninstalled by running "make uninstall", or some
>> such command. I don't know if yasr's Makefile has this option or
>> not. To comment on another one of your questions in one of your other
>> posts, if your mac doesn't have native serial ports, and I mean serial
>> as in rs232, not as in usb, then you don't care what the designation
>> for your usb ports is. You'll care what the designation is for your
>> rs232 port, once you get a usb to serial converter, as another lister said
>> you'll need to do. I don't have a mac, so the only comment I can make
>> here is that if your mac doesn't have a native rs232 port, you'll need
>> to get a usb to serial converter if you expect to use your external
>> doubletalk with your mac.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> You must be very proficient in typing on your iPhone, I honestly
>> wouldn't know the difference, especially given that some people type
>> on their pc keyboards as if they were typing on a handheld device, if
>> not worse.
>> 
>> Greg
>> 
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