dosgate

[Nicolas Pitre <nico cam org>]

dosgate is available from:

	http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zinie/dosgate/

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> 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.