Re: dosgate

[Nicolas Pitre <nico cam org>]

On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Simon F wrote:

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

That's the goal of dosgate.  Of course it hasn't been widely tested yet
and might still contain some bugs.  But since dosgate is a regular DOS
application, any DOS adaptation should work with it.

> 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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