Chris, relax, he was just teasing you. Good lord he did answer your
questions after all. It was more than two questions, but no harm, ask
two, ask three, no big deal.
On Jul 22, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Chris Gilland wrote:
and how do you
perceive me as asking half a dozen questions? Perhaps maybe from
now on I should ask none since I ask too much? Hmm?
Chris.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Blouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Really stupid question, but...
Chris Gilland wrote:
I know th answer to this already, most likely, but I can't resist
asking.
Actually, I have two questions.
Firstly, Being that really in all truth, under the hood, the Mac
OS is in deed Unix, If I go to a terminal, how likely is it, I
could install the Debian package I bought of T T Synth, for Linux,
register it, then, use that with voice over. I know you need
libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 or someting to that effect, don't have the
library name up in front a me. It's basicly an older c++ library,
but, being that that synth was built around the Unix platform,
etc. I just wonder if it could in theory, be done.
That's really about half a dozen questions <smile>. Yes, OSX is
unix underneath but if you're familiar with unix then you also know
that there are many many flavors and software for one doesn't just
run under another. So you have the HPUX, Solaris, Liux, BSD and
whatever flavors of packages. Today most releases are for Linux but
even then there are dozens of variations of Linux which all do
things a little different. So, if you had the src files you could
in theory compile and link it to the appropriate libraries and it
would run. The tricky bits would be hooking it into the audio
libraries since I'm assuming OSX's method for doing this would be
much different than any other unix. Unix historically (other than
maybe SGI Irix) hasn't been big into sound so I guess each variant
did its own thing, if they supported sound at all. A step beyond is
any APIs into AT such as screen readers. Windows, Mac and Linux all
have their own APIs for how apps communicate what's going on to the
assistive technology so any library for Linux would need modified
to use the Apple API and I suspect the models of how things should
work are going to be different.
The other thing I wonder is, if I wanted to play with an old copy
a out spoken, could I install it, and shut off voice over for a
temporary time, and see how it worked, or would I really need an
older Mac for that. No, I really don't wanna switch to outspoken,
God no. Im not that stupid, I'd just outta curiousity like to see
it in action. Even if there were an mp3 somewhere a wsomeone
using it.
Since Outspoken was an OS9 app it depends a bit on what hardware
you're running. OSX on non-intel boxes had an OS9 emulator which
will allow you to run older stuff. It might just work but you might
have to have an OS9 app running to wake up the emulator before
Outspoken would work, and Outspoken would only get its fingers into
other OS9 apps.
CB
Chris.
Scott Howell
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