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- From: pooler@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Robert Peter Poole)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: `term' 2.5 -- any suggestions?
- Message-ID: <49t1=4a@rpi.edu>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 17:16:36 GMT
- References: <olsen.5241@sourcery.mxm.sub.org> <1992Nov12.155546.3777@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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- In article <1992Nov12.155546.3777@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999) writes:
- >Quoth olsen@sourcery.mxm.sub.org (Olaf Barthel):
- >
- >]> Also, if YOU miss other features with `term' or would like to add criticism,
- >]> please let me know.
- >
- >Hm, well I'm not a loyal TERM user nor do I really intend to be at the time,
- >but I did come across something that might be worth considering.
- >
- >My roomie is looking for software useful to blind or vision-impaired folks,
- >basically stuff that will use the SPEAK: device (I know, no longer supported
- >but SO WHAT) to process text. It would be nice to have a rexx command or
- >port to enable the simultaneous display of text on screen and the speaking
- >of it out loud.
- >
-
- [stuff deleted]
- >Jeff Grimmett [SuperBitMap BBS] * fido!1:202/1401.0 [619-460-7290]
- >jeff_grimmett@f1401.n202.z1.fidonet.org * jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com
- > My employer doesn't allow me to have opinions -- so don't tell 'em I do!
-
- I second that motion! I have a professor (my advisor, in fact) who is
- visually impaired, and a terminal program that supports SPEAK: simultaneously
- with other output would be a boon to someone like him. (This professor is
- also an Amiga fan, even has one in his office, so chances are good that he
- would use something like this.)
-
- Incidentally, I have heard a rumor that Commodore screwed up with Amigados 3.0
- -- they didn't deliberately mean to leave narrator.device and
- translator.library out of the release, but it just kinda happened. Don't know
- how true this is, but consider, they also screwed up the hard drive formatting
- on the Amiga 4000's. It's conceivable that the rush to production left a
- few things out. After all, Commodore *did* improve the narrator.device with
- release 2.0 of the operating system -- why throw away that hard work?
-
- Rob Poole
- pooler@rpi.edu
-