Hi, Bratty works fine on windows linux of course and even Mac OS X.
Regards Rmgls > On Jul 28, 2017, at 10:14 PM, Adrian van Bloois <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 03:00:08PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Hi: I have been providing some tech help for a blind friend, although >> I'm sighted myself. >> >> Andre has for twenty years run a DOS system using the Powerbraille80 >> display. He >> >> has now found himself running out of dial-up options, and needs to move >> on to something >> >> with a standard ethernet connection to a fiber modem. >> >> He and I and a third friend with some IT experience have been trying to >> get him connected, >> >> but have had no luck with various DOS programs and NIC hardware. Right >> now, he has >> >> some connectivity with a Windows 7 machine running a trial copy of >> Dolphin. We have >> >> tried brltty on that Windows machine, but were unable to get it to >> work. I'm a long time >> >> Linux user, and would frankly love to get him on that platform. > I'm using CentOS, this is the free version of RedHat Linux. > I use it with a BC680 nowadays, this an 80 char braille display sold by a > dutch company. Indeed brltty is the braille driver, text mode is the > thing just like DOS. > I am retired now but I've been using this setup professionally for 35 > years. > For reading the icons and so on on the display you might get help from > orca, this is also in the CentOS/epel distribution. > Sorry, I'm not in the Chicago area, if you were active in amateur radio > we could arrange a chat in D-STAR, but this probably means nothing to > you. I'm ssuere there are users of this sort of setup in the area, but > how do you find them. > > Good lcuk > > Adrian > > > > >> >> This leads us to three questions: >> >> 1.) Are there any brltty users in the Chicago area, or for that matter, >> somewhere in the US >> >> that Andre might call by phone to chat with about their experience? >> >> 2.) Does brltty have screen reading capability, or is it primarily a >> braille display driver that needs other >> >> software for the reading function? >> >> 3.) Do we need an additional driver for the Powerbraille80 display, or >> ?? >> >> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. > >> _______________________________________________ >> This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. >> To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] >> For general information, go to: http://brltty.com/mailman/listinfo/brltty > > > -- > Adri P. van Bloois > > > "Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between > success and failure." > Edsger W. Dijkstra > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] > For general information, go to: http://brltty.com/mailman/listinfo/brltty _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.com/mailman/listinfo/brltty
