some bees nest stirring, was just how much can you do with?

[Karen Lewellen]

Changing the subject line slightly based on a new question.
I promise i will get to the odd speakup command question.
Still if elinks and mplayer exist ported for DOS, why go through the 
extreme mayhem of finding someone local enough to learn speakup and ora 
and so forth to teach me in the first place?
have folks seen these?


http://www.ausreg.com/dos_ports/index.htm

Dos is anything but dead folks, and already have a local tech who 
understands it...but not Linux.
I am not above the concept, but that Orca question, the sharing of how 
little basic fundamentals exists, and my finding via the freedos list that 
the stuff can be done perhaps otherwise, has me wondering.
I share simply from the more items on the menu standpoint, and perhaps to 
stimulate some to have a look at these ports.
It seems my fastest door right now may be sharing this link  with my 
engineer friend here and see how challenging it  will be to put elinks and 
mplyer together, links and mplayer as well.
Then I just have more choices.  Lynx is updated regularly including some 
work for DOS.
I am laughing at that fun with the Linux box voice tough.
thoughts on this source?
Karen



On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Tim Chase wrote:

>> Tim, I learned more in this one email than I have learned
>> in the past two days on the debian list.
>> Epic all. you. want.
>
> Now you're just egging me on... (smirks)
>
> Regarding Michael Stutz's "Linux Cookbook", I particularly
> like the cookbook nature of it's "if you want to do X, here
> are instructions/tools to do it."  There's a 2nd edition
> available for purchase from No Starch Press, either in
> dead-tree or PDF at
>
> http://nostarch.com/lcbk2.htm
>
> so if you like what is in the free online 1st edition
> online, considering the 2nd edition for purchase might be in
> order.
>
>> The wonderful advantage of my DOS screen reader is that I
>> rarely have to take my hands off the main keyboard to
>> review stuff. I can use a screen review structure etc.
>
> As a Vim user, I can appreciate your desire to keep your
> hands on the main keyboard rather than losing your position
> on the home-row.  Later on, you write:
>
>> Why would one need to run more than one screen reader...at
>> all?  Are the other built into the system already as well?
>
> If not all pre-installed, they should all be in the repos,
> making them just a simple install away.  I'm not sure one
> would ever have a need/want to run them concurrently, but
> they each have various strengths and weaknesses:
>
> Speakup:
> (con) harder to get set up if it didn't come installed by
> default with your distro
> (pro) can read everything from bootup on
> (con) key-mapping seems to be hard-wired at compile time
> (con) console only, not GUI
>
> yasr:
> (pro) I found it much easier to set up than Speakup
> (pro) keys were remappable if you wanted
> (con) doesn't read from bootup
> (con) console only, not GUI
>
> Orca:
> (pro) Useful for the GUI and various terminal windows
> launched within
> (con) a bit more complex to set up
> (pro) I believe the keys are fairly remappable
> I haven't tinkered with Orca in a while, so I don't know how
> hard it is to set up.
>
> emacspeak:
> (pro) fairly easy to set up
> (con) console only, not GUI
> (pro/con) deeply built into the Emacs-Way
> I haven't used it, so can't speak much on it
>
> So as you can see, you might not run them all at the same
> time, but you might find yourself using one in preference of
> the others.  If you need a GUI, then Orca is your go-to
> option.  Otherwise, you can weigh the pros/cons and settle
> on what works for you.  Personally, I run yasr, but that's
> because I grew tired of fighting to configure Speakup.  If
> you have a system pre-configured with Speakup, it might be
> a better option.
>
>> I could spend  years reading up on the various ways to do
>> things...instead of finding  simple paths to doing them.
>
> Again, let this list help you.  As you can see, folks are
> eager to offer their various expertise.
>
>> Sigh, again I have another profession, becoming a
>> programmer  is not what I want to do to manage my
>> professional needs.
>
> While you certainly don't need to become a programmer just
> to be a user, I always recommend that *everybody* learn a
> little bit about programming, even if it's just enough to
> recognize "there must be a better way to do this."  Laziness
> is a trait of the best programmers because we never want to
> do the same thing more than once.  Set your tolerance
> threshold really low for tedious activities and then, if you
> need some assistance, drop a line here and hopefully we can
> ease your pain.  I even coded up a simple time-tracking
> application a while back because someone here asked if there
> was a console-accessible time-tracker.  Now I use it for my
> own job.  So things that bug you likely bug others who
> aren't as vocal and would appreciate you stirring the bees'
> nest for solutions. (grins)
>
>> I do not use a text editor I use a full complete and
>> functional word processor.  There is a considerable
>> difference.
>
> I found that back when I used Word Perfect, I flew with
> "Reveal Codes" on all the time.  It's basically like HTML
> under the hood, using various tags to indicate things like
> lists, paragraphs, headings, etc.  But if WP works for you,
> and you can get it running under Linux, then good on ya.
>
>> In any case I have anew in box edition of wordperfect
>> written for Linux.
>
> Depending on the age of it, I don't know how accessible it
> is.  YMMV.  However, if you're using the GUI with Orca, I
> believe you can use AbiWord, OpenOffice.org, or LibreOffice.
> Hopefully others will chime in here regarding their
> experiences using Orca with those.
>
>> Interestingly enough we just had a Firefox verses Ice
>> Wiesel discussion on the main Debian discussion list.  The
>> explanation was that there is no difference between the
>> two programs save the name.  The reasoning provided is
>> that it was needful for copy right reasons.  Are there
>> other  actual differences then?
>
> For the most part, they're identical modulo the branding.
> However, there are some minor differences such as the
> release-speed of updates and how plugins do/don't work.
> Native Firefox updates at a much faster rate than Ice
> Weasel.  Also, I've had plugins work in Firefox but fail in
> Ice Weasel (though usually, if a plugin works in Firefox but
> not in Ice Weasel, it should be considered a bug in the
> plugin).
>
> [omitting & condensing context about shellworld/telnet/ssh]
>
> If you have your own second machine, then you should
> certainly be able to configure it to do everything the
> shellworld account does and then telnet/ssh from your
> workhorse machine into your Linux box instead of your
> shellworld account.  That means you can run any console
> program remotely on your Linux box (edbrowse/lynx/links/w3m
> for browsing, pine/alpine/mutt for mail, ircii/finch for
> chat, etc).  Running GUI applications remotely is much more
> of a mess.
>
> Of course you'd still have the peculiarities of working
> remotely, so if you telnetted/sshed into your local Linux
> box and did things like play sounds or use the screen-reader
> there (instead of on your workhorse machine), the audio
> would come out of your Linux box rather than your workhorse
> machine.  But that can lead to fun, like remotely saying
> hello to somebody downstairs where your Linux box is via its
> audio output while you sit upstairs at your workhorse.
>
> Things like webinars and YouTube are the hardest to access.
> For YouTube, there's a program called "yt-download" which I
> occasionally use to download the underlying media file and
> then play it back locally.  Note that I had to download the
> latest version from github because Debian Stable moves too
> slowly to keep up with YouTube's changes.  I don't have a
> good answer to webinars.
>
> You can do all this and still keep shellworld if that meets
> certain other needs, as they're not mutually exclusive.
>
> I hope this allays some of your concerns and spurs you to
> play with abandon on your Linux machine.  And that you bring
> questions here so everybody can benefit from answers you
> get.
>
> -tim
>
>