Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 status - and screen readers

2008-08-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > Well, brltty is for braille support, not speech output The part of the problem where you have to fetch text from dos to redirect it to another device is the same for both. Work to improve cooperation of either with dos helps both. By the way, there also was a project to port brltty to dos

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 status - and screen readers

2008-08-30 Thread Travis Siegel
Well, brltty is for braille support, not speech output, and I agree that it is generally distributed separately. However, speakup is physically part of the linux kernel (for those distros that include it) though there are other screen readers (such as yasr for text mode, and orca for gui outp

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 status - and screen readers

2008-08-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > Last time I tried running my screen reader on freedos (admittedly, it > was several years ago, and freedos wasn't anywhere near ver 1.0) it > just plain didn't work. Then try again. If you use NANSI, make sure to use the /R option to force output via BIOS. FreeDOS uses BIOS int 10 function