I submitted a bug to bugreport.apple.com about Voice Over not reading
the terminal automatically. I suggest you send a bug report as well.
If they know that this bug affects more than one person, they will be
more likely to fix it.
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Bingo! I finally got logged into my linux machine.
One of the problems I was having, believe it or not, was that I'd
disconnected my Mac from the network and forgot to reconnect it. I was a
*little* bummed that the Mac didn't tell me that. Windows does that.
I have DSL at home. The DSL modem is connected to a linux box that serves as
the firewall & router (also web server, file server, and dhcp and dns
server). I have a 5 port switch but I now have 6 computers. So I was setting
up my second linux machine to serve as a router for a second sub-net. I've
been splitting my time between that project and learning the Mac.
Anyway, I had shutdown the Mac when I realized the cable was disconnected. I
plugged it back in and turned the machine back on. The Mac's name is
nitschke and when I opened terminal, the prompt I got had the name in it. I
was then able to ssh to lambeau.
It seems that Voiceover doesn't automatically begin reading whatever is
displayed. That seems like a major drawback to using a Mac fulltime. I do a
lot of work on other machines. When I type 'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]', it should
then immediately read the password prompt that appears. Having to press
another key combination to have it read that might be a deal killer.
PS: All my computers are named after Green Bay Packers. Not only is it fun,
it's handy. I know Ray Nitschke was 66 so my Mac, nitschke, is 192.168.1.66.
Lambeau is 1, favre is 4, etc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: Using terminal
John,
To read the output of terminal, you need to interact with the "text". It
is a bit trickyy at first, but it gets easier to do once you've done it a
few times..
On Aug 30, 2006, at 2:22 PM, John Heim wrote:
I'm trying to convert from Windows to MacOS. The one thing i need the
most is to ssh to my linux machine. I can't figure out how to do that. I
understand you use a program called terminal. I've run that and I think
it's giving me a bash prompt -- which would be way cool. However, when I
type a command, nothing happens. I mean, I run terminal, I hear it says
"bash" I think. But then if I type something like "ls", I do not hear a
file list.
Anybody got a tutorial on using terminal with voiceover?
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