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- The name of this document is BLIND.DOC. It can be found in the DOCS
- directory of Terminate.
-
- This file contains only information for people who cannot see.
-
- Because we got a lot of personal requests from blind people, we decided to
- create a few extra features which will help you to use Terminate even
- faster and with far more ease than any other terminal program we know.
-
- 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 also choose to use BIOS calls all the time.
-
- If you select Blind Support during installation the following options will
- be selected:
-
- Sound is turned on giving you a sound when popping up or closing a window
- Key click is turned on giving you a click noise every time you press a key
- Only menus will use direct screen writes
- The hardware cursor will be forced on all the time so your helper can see
- the cursor
- All sounds are turned on
- Passwords will not be hidden
- No automatic passwords will be generated
- The Blind Transfer window will be used for file transfers
- The File Manager will default to only one window
- Some extra sounds have been added
- In submenus all the background windows will be removed before displaying a
- new window.
-
- With blind support enabled, Terminate will always turn on the hardware
- cursor so if you have a helper he/she can tell you if the cursor position
- was wrong and report this error to me, the author of Terminate. This
- function also allows you to press CONTROL ENTER and then move the cursor.
- 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: a high tone followed by a low tone.
-
- To make things easier when transferring files, instead of the normal full
- screen file transfer menu yours have been cut down to the actual
- information needed. A sample picture is shown below. This window starts at
- the position 1,1 (upper left corner) and the cursor is placed just before
- the bytes transferred.
-
- The menu looks like the following lines:
-
- ╒════════════╡ Blind transfer ╞╕
- │ Filename DANBBS.ARJ │
- │ Filesize 2153297 │
- │ 75% 8192 │
- │ CPS │
- │ H Hangup No S Skip file │
- │ Errors 0 │
- ╘══════════════════════════════╛
-
- Menu finished.
-
- Line 1: The name of the file.
- Line 2: The size of the file.
- Line 3: How many percent and how many bytes have been transfered.
- Line 4: Characters per second, speed of transfer.
- Line 5: H to hang up after transfer. S to skip the rest of file.
- Line 6: Display error count if any.
-
- The message reader for Terminate is called TerMail. When starting up this
- editor you could use the parameter /BLIND to enable special sounds and
- features. If you call up TerMail from Terminate Alt-F7,L then this
- parameter will automatically be added if you have enabled blind support in
- the Terminate toggles menu. TerMail has a lot of sounds, as you will
- quickly learn. Also, when reading messages, you can press Ctrl-Enter to
- change the cursor location in the following order: To, Msg, From, Subject.
- Just try it and you will quickly get used to it.
-
- In the Terminate file manager you can press Q for Quiet, which will disable
- the entire left side and make it easier to view the files.
-
- List of available hot-keys in Terminate:
-
- change configuration (alt-o)
-
- S = Screen and colors
- C = Communications setup
- G = General options
- T = Toggles
- M = Modem and dialing
- F = Filenames and paths
- P = Protocol options
- E = Emulation/keyboard setup
- H = Host settings
- L = Login strings/scripts
- U = Users/iemsi/security
- N = Point system
- A = Cost management
- R = Registration info
- X = Fax configuration
-
- Phonebook (alt-d)
-
- Ins = Insert entry
- Del = Delete entry
- A = Add entry
- E = Edit/view
- D = Dial numbers
- M = Manual dial
- F = Find
- S = Sort entries
- I = Import
- P = Change phonebooks
- O = Other functions
- G = Global change
- V = Save now
- L = Voice call
- C = Copy or move entries
- T = Edit capture file
- N = Edit note file
- W = Show warn days
- Tagging = space, plus (+), minus (-), stat (*)
-
- phonebook edit (alt-d,e)
-
- S = System name
- P = Phonenumber
- D = Device
- U = User profile
- W = Password
- O = Opening hours
- T = Terminal
- X = Dial prefix
- F = Dial suffix
- C = Com information
- A = Autologin
- L = Downloadpath
- N = Notefile
-
- Pointsystem (Alt-F7)
-
- C = Call boss
- M = Call system
- S = Send files
- R = File request
- K = Kill mail
- T = Auto requests
- Z = Zoom mail
- E = Mail address
- N = Send messager
- H = Change mail
- L = Mail editor
- I = Import
- X = Export
- O = Configuration
-
- TerMail (Alt-F7, L)
-
- Alt-F = Areafix
- DEl = Delete
- Alt-E = Edit
- Esc = Exit
- Enter = Area
-
- These features were made possible thanks to the input and help from many
- blind persons. In the future, we will have a blind contact person who will
- help us to support even more of these features. If you have any special
- needs, please send a letter to the following person and he will help us
- enabling what you want or need. He is also the person you should thank for
- giving us the initial many suggestions for improving Terminate.
-
- H.C. Andersen
- Fregatten 14
- 5330 Munkebo
- Denmark
- Fidonet 2:236/111.101
- Internet hca@login.dknet.dk
-
- Please do not use handwriting. Send your letters on disk or in printed from
- a printer, so you can be sure I can read your information.
-
- / Hans Christian Andersen
-
- Special thank you's for helping with the blind test go to:
-
- H.C. Andersen 2:236/111.101
- Bue Vester-Andersen 2:236/111.117
- Raul Gallegos 1:109/921.15
- Martin Kirchner 2:2494/3040.6
-
- and all the other people that have helped us improve the blind features.
-
- / Bo Bendtsen
-
-