Re: svlpro

[Nicolas Pitre <nico cam org>]

Just an idea for someone with time to experiment:

There is a package named "dosgate" available for few months already that
was announced on this list.  This is a DOS program intended to run within
dosemu that mimic in dosemu aka DOS all Linux native virtual consoles.
This would allow, for example, one to pick up the free JAWS for DOS
version and run it along with dosgate, thus having JAWS for DOS (or any
other good old DOS screen reader) manage the Linux console.

dosgate was originally written because somebody wanted to use his old Alva
ABT240 under Linux but there isn't any documentation available for it that
would have led to a BRLTTY driver.  Instead, dosgate allowed for the DOS
TSR for the ABT240 to run under dosemu and dosgate just duplicate screen
content and keypresses between the DOS envirenment and Linux virtual
consoles transparently.

That's something I wanted to play with for a long time, but... didn't come
to it yet.  Since it should work with screen readers too, maybe this is a
good alternative too.


On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Buddy Brannan wrote:

> Hi there Ivan,
> 
> I don't know for certain, but Michael Gorse's web page seems to indicate
> that he's working on a console screen reader that works from a shell. You
> might contact him on the screen reader he's working on; I *think* he's
> GPL'ing it. Course, you might also check out Speakup, which of course works
> as kernel patches, and it is definitely GPL. I don't have Michael's Email
> address to hand, although I think it's mgorse wpi edu ... There's a link to
> his Web page at Blinux home page, if I'm not too badly mistaken.
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