Re: Looking for some help.

[Whistler <whistler@blinksoft.com>]

I would suggest if you haven't looked at them take a look at ASAP or JAWS
for dos The number pad on the keyboards make a great control pad for
re-reading the screan and I think with some work you should be able to
make a dos like screan reader the way you are doing it.

Ken /whistler

On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Ed Greenberg wrote:

> At 10:07 PM 1/15/98 -0600, John Schucker wrote:
> >Well, the problem with dumping all the output to the port as I see it is 
> >lack of review.  I mean, let's say you're doing cat foo.bar, and you miss 
> >say a phone number.  How do you go back and look at just the line with 
> >that number on it?  If you're simply dumping the output to the port, the 
> >only way to do it is recat the file.
> >  
> >Mind, I'm not saying it's a bad idea or anything ... the more options the 
> >better as far as I'm concerned .. and I could see it as especially useful 
> >in a special pre-compiled kernel with that driver, so you could hook up a 
> >synth and install linux yourself essentially.
> 
> I think the review problem is easy, actually. I plan to work on building a
> review module into this code as soon as I have the flow control working
> better.
> 
> I already have a rudamentary review going, in that when you switch from one
> Virtual Console to another, the code rereads the screen as it repaints. This 
> is done by actually looking at the (software) screen buffer.
> 
> Review could be by cursoring around the screen and asking for lines, words
> or characters. I can already read the screen, as indicated above, so the
> extent of 
> the problem is making the keyboard a modal device, and then building the
> review mode. 
> 
> I see all of this as taking place in keyboard.c and console.c.
> 
> The version that I have now starts talking as soon as you boot, and keeps
> talking right down to "system halted." If flow control worked, I'd ask for
> testers. 
> 
> </edg> 
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> Ed Greenberg               edg@greenberg.org            km6cg
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