dosgate, a Linux+dosemu interface to dos-based screen readers.

From: Lloyd G. Rasmussen (lras@loc.gov)
Date: Tue Oct 26 1999 - 06:10:32 PDT


I have not tested this, but it's another of the text-based screen reader
solutions being worked on for Linux. More information at the addresses below.

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>From: Enrico Zini <zinie@cs.unibo.it>
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>Hello!
>
>I've just finished writing dosgate, a program to recreate in a dosemu session
>every i/o event that would occur during normal linux console routine.
This is
>useful to use every dos screen reader that works under dosemu as a Linux
screen
>reader.
>
>I've created a little web page for dosgate, where one can download the
tarball, and it's http://cs.unibo.it/~zinie/dosgate.
>
>Everything is under GPL, and it surely needs testing and improving. I
wrote it
>to allow a friend with a braille display not supported by brltty to use
Linux.
>
>Note: there is a little install script to automate building boot images for
>dosemu, but it's intended more as a guideline to read to know what should be
>done than a script to run to get things done. In no way it is stable and well
>tested; anyway on my system it works (probably by pure luck).
>
>Let me know if it works and if it could be useful!
>
>
>Read you soon, Enrico
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