Re: dosgate

[Simon F <blinky earthlight co nz>]

And this program will work with any dos screen reader, such as mastertouch
or jfd (jaws for dos)?

simon.
At 10:45 19/12/99 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
>
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