Ah, well a smily might have indicated that cause didn't seem that way.
So, it's all good.:)
On Jul 22, 2008, at 3:34 PM, Chris Gilland wrote:
Frankly, I was teasing as well.
Chris.
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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.
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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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