I'm still learning the terminal. Actually I'm afraid of it as I can't spell. but I have noticed it does speak what you type. I use a skype tool someone wrote called clisk to get stuff done and it reads everything. I do notice though that with bigger things it kind of freezes.
S On Feb 7, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Jim Barbour wrote: > This email is written while I'm in a whiny mood <grin> Fair warning! > > What I want to know is how people are surviving the truely crappy > terminal support in VO. Crappy, in this case, comes from comparing it > to TTY based speech programs for UNIX such as yasr. > > <whining begins here, all feedback warmly welcomed> > When I run commands in the terminal, VO doesn't speak what's written > to standard out. I realize I can capture all to a file, but I really > shouldn't need to do that. VO also doesn't have a good way of telling > me which row/column I'm on and won't read line by line when I arrow up > and down. > > I'm seriously thinking of taking a shot at porting yasr from freebsd > to Mac. Anyone else think this is a good idea? > > Thanks for putting up with my rant. You guys are all awesome, > > Jim > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 12:23:02AM +0000, Esther wrote: >> Hello William, >> >> The most complete answer to your question is to point you to "Take Control >> of the Mac Command Line in Terminal" by Joe Kissell, which explains how to >> create .bashrc files, what you can specify in that file, how to create >> aliases, and many more details for questions that you will probably end up >> posting one by one. It's available from the Take Control Books site for >> $10.00: >> http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/command-line >> Some of the Take Control books are available in the iBooks store, but manu, >> including this one, are not. Also, if you buy directly from the Take >> Control web site you get access to multiple format versions (in addition to >> the direct download in PDF) from login on the web site. This includes a >> folder of alternate formats (including ePub) from your account (e.g., list >> of links will be "Take Control of the Mac Command Line in Terminal", which >> links to the web page URL with description given above, then a link to the >> version number, which links the latest PDF version, then the "Dowload" link >> which links a folder with alternate available formats (e.g., ePub, mobi, >> Android format in some cases). Your library comes up when you log into your >> account, and you always have access to the latest minor revision versions of >> each book. These read easily in Preview, and you can load the ePub version >> into iBooks. (Unfortunately, you cannot upload ePub versions of the books >> directly into iBooks, the way I can if I purchase these same titles from >> oreilly.com, and access my account's purchased ebook links from the login >> page). >> >> HTH. Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On Feb 07, 2011, at 01:37 PM, William Windels <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hello all, I have a question about the terminal: >> >> In the classic linux distributions that run with bash, there is a >> .bashrc-file where you can add aliases. >> A alias gives the possibility to make a short string=command for a long >> instruction. >> a example can be: >> alias commandtest='this are all the commands that are executed when >> commandtest is typed' >> >> I would like to make aliases in terminal for some commands but I can't find >> the .bashrc-file. >> >> Can someone give me some hints how this works on a mac? >> >> Thanx for your help! >> >> best regards, >> William >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
