Terminal works through voiceover. You just going to terminal from the finder, 
and from there, you can use terminal in voiceover.

Sincerely,
The Constantly barefooted Ray,

Still a very happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone 6+ and Apple TV user!

Sent from my iPhone,
the only smart phone with full accessibility for the blind built-in

> On Dec 11, 2014, at 4:08 PM, deedra waters <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> from what i gather isn’t virtual box a pita to use from the command line…. as 
> well, I need the vm to talk using speak or y a s r. So, how does running the 
> vm in a command line help me when i need it’s command line to talk?
> 
>    
> deedra waters
> [email protected]
> 
> 
> 
>> On Dec 11, 2014, at 1:42 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> As Genna mentioned previously in this thread, virtualbox does the same thing 
>> as vmware and is free. The downside is that the GUI is not very accessible, 
>> but you don't really need the GUI as it's all configurable from terminal. In 
>> other words you would use terminal to get virtualbox up and running with 
>> your unix of choice and then you could do what you want inside that virtual 
>> machine. All that said, just remember that OSX is not Linux. It's based on 
>> BSD, which also is not Linux.
>> 
>> CB
>> 
>>> On 12/11/14, 3:16 PM, deedra waters wrote:
>>> I like the bratty idea sad though that our display is half defective and 
>>> not fixable. I’m thinking vmware is going to end up being my way to go. I 
>>> just don’t want to pay a small fortune for vmware when all i want is 1 
>>> linux vm that’s useable.
>>> 
>>>    
>>> deedra waters
>>> [email protected]
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Dec 11, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Cheryl Homiak <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> The terminal is fine if one has a braille display and can use brltty, for 
>>>> which I know I should write a README but honestly I haven't been able to 
>>>> find time to do it! If nobody else does it first, I truly do plan to 
>>>> eventually. But in my opinion, without brltty, the terminal isn't much fun 
>>>> though it can be used for entering commands without too much trouble. With 
>>>> brltty, I just turn voiceover off if using the terminal for any length of 
>>>> time because I've had issues with terminal crashing and it doesn't seem to 
>>>> happen if voiceover isn't on.
>>>> 
>>>> I did run vmware with linux for a time and it's doable. I also fixed up an 
>>>> old powerpc Mac mini with wheezy for kind of a backup for my linux needs.
>>>> 
>>>> Having homebrew and/or Macports does much broaden your options in terminal 
>>>> also.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Cheryl
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Go beyond the Christmas story this year;
>>>> meet Immanuel (God with us),
>>>> Jesus, the crucified Savior,
>>>> Christ, the risen LORD!!!
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Dec 11, 2014, at 1:43 PM, deedra waters <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Well, first of all i’m more or less happy with  what i got in terms of 
>>>>> the macbook air. it’s portable and light which is good. I was able to sit 
>>>>> in the er for several hours waiting for my turn to see the doctor  and 
>>>>> was actually not bored there for once.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I had brought the macbook and a usb headset. Usually when i land in the 
>>>>> hospital they end up admitting me because of some of my medical issues. 
>>>>> This time though I wasn’t admitted but had i been i’d have books at least!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Either way the 10ish hours passed rarely quickly with something to do. I 
>>>>> was really annoyed the fact that i couldn’t get my media i’d brought to 
>>>>> play for the life of me…. Instead i watched episodes of days of our lives 
>>>>> from the iTunes store *snicker*
>>>>> 
>>>>> From a linux point of view though things are quite different. for example 
>>>>> tail -n 50 doesn’t work across platforms in terms of the mac and linux 
>>>>> with the mac you have to type something like tail -50 to get what  you 
>>>>> want. Little things like that ended up requiring the linux/unix skills of 
>>>>> my fiancé to get certain of my scripts and some other python tools to 
>>>>> work properly.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I’m highly unsatisfied with the  terminal though I mean it does simple 
>>>>> mac type things fine and works well enough for that but unless i buy 
>>>>> vmware fusion or unless there’s a cheaper way of getting a linux vm up 
>>>>> and running for those tasks that just don’t do well in the mac terminal
>>>>> 
>>>>> The speech interrupts  are highly annoying in the terminal i’d kill for a 
>>>>> way to turn those off and on. I also ended up buying a few apps that just 
>>>>> make things simpler for me. Take the my medical app. With as sick as i 
>>>>> am, that app is almost a needed thing. I’ve been working to get  as much 
>>>>> of my medical records as possible put into the app so that way if worse 
>>>>> comes to worse all i have to do is turn voiceover off, they should be 
>>>>> able to access and read the info then give the thing back to me. In 
>>>>> theory at least it sounds like a great idea. I’m probably going to have 
>>>>> to find a way of getting the data to export to a readable format such as 
>>>>> pdf for them.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Mac journal i also found useful for several things.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Over all, i like what i got. I still have a ton to learn but i think that 
>>>>> that will come with time and practice. Now to hunt down iTunes podcasts.:)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> deedra waters
>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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