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- The name of this document is BLIND.DOC found in the DOCS directory.
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- This file contains only information for people that cannot see.
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- Because we got a lot of personal requests from blind people, we decided to
- make a few extra features which will help you to use Terminate even faster
- and more easily than any other terminal program known to us.
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- Most of you use some kind of speech device which only can detect BIOS
- writes. Terminate will use direct screen writes in menus and BIOS calls
- in terminal mode. You can choose to use BIOS calls all the time.
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- If you select blind support under installation the following will be
- selected:
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- Sound is turned on giving you a sound when popping up or down a window
- Key click is turned on giving you a click every time you press a key
- Only menus will use direct screen writes
- Cursor will be forced on all the time so you helper can see the cursor
- All sounds are turned on
- Passwords will not be hidden
- No autopasswords will be generated
- The blind transfer window will be used for transfering files
- File manager will default to only 1 window
- Some extra sounds have been added
- In menu menus all the background windows will be removed before showing
- the new window.
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- With blind support Terminate will always turn on the cursor so if you have a
- helper he/she can tell you if the cursor position was wrong and ask me to
- correct the error. This function also allows you to press CONTROL ENTER and
- move this will move the cursor position to the first position in the
- helpline at the bottom of the screen, allowing you faster speech access.
- If no help is found in a menu, when the menuline selector is used, then a
- beep will be played: high tone, low tone.
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- To make things easier when transfering files instead of the normal full
- screen file transfer menu. Yours have been cut down to the actual
- information you need. A sample picture is shown below. This window starts
- at 1,1 upper left corner and the cursor is placed just before the bytes
- transfered.
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- The menu looks like the following lines:
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- ’ÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕµ Blind transfer Δ∏
- ≥ Filename DANBBS.ARJ ≥
- ≥ Filesize 2153297 ≥
- ≥ 75% 8192 ≥
- ≥ CPS ≥
- ≥ H Hangup No S Skip file ≥
- ‘ÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕæ
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- Menu finished.
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- Line 1: The name on the file.
- Line 2: The size of the file.
- Line 3: How many percent and how many bytes that are transfered.
- Line 4: Chars per second, speed of transfer.
- Line 5: S for skip rest of file , h for hanging up after transfer.
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- The message reader for Terminate is called TerMail. When starting up this
- editor you could give the parameter /BLIND to enable special sounds and
- features. If you call TerMail from Terminate Alt-F7,L then this parameter
- will automatically be added if blind support is enabled.
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- In the filemanager you can press Q for Quiet, which will disable the entire
- left side and make it easier to view the files.
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- These features was made with help from many blind persons, in the future the
- blind contact person will help us to support these features.
- If you have any special needs, please send a letter to the following
- person and he will help us doing what you want or need:
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- H.C. Andersen
- Fregatten 14
- 5330 Munkebo
- Denmark
- Fidonet 2:236/111.101
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