RE: Which Linux + screen reader to choose?
- From: "Chris Hofstader" <chris.hofstader@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:40:24 -0400
At least when using the bash shell as your command interpreter on GNU/Linux
systems, you get auto-complete for path names, commands and lots of other
stuff. Bash, the Born Again Shell, is one of the oldest programs developed
by Project GNU, way back in the dark ages before Linus made his kernel and,
although compiled using it, the gcc compiler was hardly a beta. A really
neat guy named Brian Fox (bfox) led that project, I wonder if anyone has
heard of or from him as I lost touch at least 15 years ago.
cdh
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From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of inthaneelf
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 4:35 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Which Linux + screen reader to choose?
this is a bit off the line of what I am answering, I forgot about a question
you asked and deleted the reply, so I am going to insert it here.
Daniel you asked why I don't like command line, it's simple, I hate typing
out the whole string of junk that is usually needed to perform a task in
command line.
I use it when I have to, even though I'm a hardware tech, I can't get away
without knowing some software diagnosis and repair methods, and some of the
better emergency repairs and diagnostics are still command line, but... I
have a cheat sheet that I need to bring up to use them, because I find
myself either forgetting the switches for, or the exact syntax for them.
and I'm glad Linux now has a GUI, I hate having to type the mount command
before I could use a drive, I just want to click on the drive as in my
computer, instead of having to mount it, or even typing out the path to an
executable on a drive in order to use it, "one click actuation is us"...
yes, I'm windows spoiled, and with the size of some of the projects I work
on, the ease of running access data bases, or multiple spread sheets and
word documents along with a few text documents as well, is much to easy to
handle in windows (and yes that was literal, I'm doing a rewrite on a book I
started a few years ago, and have on more than one occasion had up to five
spread sheets, and four text documents and two to three word documents
running at one time, with a need to bounce in between them all!)
if Linux can do this, I may change, since for the main part, Linux is more
secure, but until I can do something like the above run, and have learned to
do it efficiently with Linux, windows is it for me!
regards,
inthane
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Dalton" <d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:50 AM
Subject: Re: Which Linux + screen reader to choose?
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
>
>> Because you got used to use it maybe?
>
> Get used to using something else...
>
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