[BRLTTY] Help for a Friend

[rmgls]

Hi,

Bratty works fine on windows  linux of course and even Mac OS X.

Regards

Rmgls


> On Jul 28, 2017, at 10:14 PM, Adrian van Bloois <adrian at pa0rda.nl> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 03:00:08PM -0400, wmichaelb at fuse.net wrote:
>> 
>>   Hi: I have been providing some tech help for a blind friend, although
>>   I'm sighted myself.
>> 
>>   Andre has for twenty years run a DOS system using the Powerbraille80
>>   display. He
>> 
>>   has now found himself running out of dial-up options, and needs to move
>>   on to something
>> 
>>   with a standard ethernet connection to a fiber modem.
>> 
>>   He and I and a third friend with some IT experience have been trying to
>>   get him connected,
>> 
>>   but have had no luck with various DOS programs and NIC hardware. Right
>>   now, he has
>> 
>>   some connectivity with a Windows 7 machine running a trial copy of
>>   Dolphin. We have
>> 
>>   tried brltty on that Windows machine, but were unable to get it to
>>   work. I'm a long time
>> 
>>   Linux user, and would frankly love to get him on that platform.
> I'm using CentOS, this is the free version of RedHat Linux.
> I use it with a BC680 nowadays, this an 80 char braille display sold by a
> dutch company. Indeed brltty is the braille driver, text mode is the
> thing just like DOS.
> I am retired now but I've been using this setup professionally for 35
> years.
> For reading the icons and so on on the display you might get help from
> orca, this is also in the CentOS/epel distribution.
> Sorry, I'm not in the Chicago area, if you were active in amateur radio
> we could arrange a chat in D-STAR, but this probably means nothing to
> you. I'm ssuere there are users of this sort of setup in the area, but
> how do you find them.
> 
> Good lcuk
> 
> 		Adrian
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>>   This leads us to three questions:
>> 
>>   1.) Are there any brltty users in the Chicago area, or for that matter,
>>   somewhere in the US
>> 
>>   that Andre might call by phone to chat with about their experience?
>> 
>>   2.) Does brltty have screen reading capability, or is it primarily a
>>   braille display driver that needs other
>> 
>>   software for the reading function?
>> 
>>   3.) Do we need an additional driver for the Powerbraille80 display, or
>>   ??
>> 
>>   Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
> 
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> 
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> 	Adri P. van Bloois
> 
> 
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