[BRLTTY] brltty for the mac

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Cheryl Homiak on 2006/07/03 at 00:01 -0500]

>Just checking to see if anybody is still working on brltty for the  
>Mac and if any further progress is made. 

I was supposed to have a meeting with the lady in charge of Apple accessibility
a few months ago, but, for whatever reason, that didn't happen. I've just sent
her a note to try to reinitiate that.

>I see that one can compile  
>and install it if stripping is eliminated in config.mk in the top  
>level; 

I'll need to wait till I have direct access to a Mac in order to work on the
strip options problem.

>it appears that nothing actually happens when brltty is loaded  
>as far as the display is concerned though;; I assume this is because  
>there is no screen driver yet 

It should work when using screen with BRLTTY's patch, though.

>unless it hhass something to do with my  
>use of a usbserial cable with my braillelite. 

Do you know what device names are used when ding it that way?

>One thing I did notice  
>is that wwhen I run brltty I get an error unless I do it from /  
>(slash). Apparently it tries to open its working directory where you  
>arre, such as in /usr/local/brltty/etc oalthough the directory  
>actually is in /etc. I assume this is avoidable in configuring but  
>since this isn't necessary when compiling in linux I thought I'd  
>mention it. 

It must be having trouble determining the location of the executable at
run-time.

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