Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 18:48:47 -0700 (PDT) From: David Holloway <daveh@tamis.com> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: blind Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970805184823.5878A-100000@sage> In-Reply-To: <199708052117.XAA00893@wall.jhs.no_domain>
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I heard of some emacs plugins that have audio feedback. On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > A retired ex programmer (Joe McB.) in Munich has gone blind ... > Does FreeBSD have any software available to let him work on a Unix box ? > He hates DOS, & that's all he's heard of as a base for oral/aural I/O hardware. > He's used Minix/Linux/a BSD too, so he'd be OK with FreeBSD. > > (Another friend tells me a blind sys op recently asked on one of the lists, > about avoiding graphical installs, but that's no great problem here, > I'd do the install for him, > but I'm v. short of time (who isn't ;-) so I'm looking for something > quick & dirty & soon, rather than something elegant & time consuming, > that I won't have time for. > > BTW I sent this > To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org > bcc: ports@freebsd.org, de-bsd-chat@de.freebsd.org > bcc: a few local techies ... > to avoid mail list cross post followup; also I'm not on freebsd-multimedia@, > but am on ports@ (this week anyway, rather busy that list). > > I'm copying this to a few local computer friends too, so they can contact > Joe direct by phone with suggestions, but I'll collate email responses, > & convert to a phone call to Joe (+49.89.5027209 Timezone: GMT+01:00) > He speaks English & German BTW. > > If the only solution is to use a DOS box as a front end (I hope not!) > I have a spare old box he could maybe have, then again he might need > his newer box to run the speach I/O card(s), & the older box > for typical command line Unix stuff, but he's short of space where he lives, > one (Unix) box would be much better than two. > > Julian > --- > Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ >
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