On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: > Speaking of other accessible software, I'd like to have an IRC-client that > does not require switching to it to be able to read messages. Maybe this is > a strange idea but I'd find a deamon style IRc-client nice. That is it would > post messages to your console directly, a bit like the new mail note but > they'd be channel messages. YOu could also give IRC commands and respond by > typing, say: my comment or say: /whois saarni and so on. This way you could > IRC while working in the console without much hassle. Umm, There might be > some more elegant solutions such as automated foreground task switching when > new messages arrive, or simply opening up several consoles. Still, that > deamon mode would be, well, at least interesting. I asked my Linux friend > about it but he hadn't seen any such client. neither have I actually. although I think it's possible to write one, I personally would have having so much extra traffic going over my text-console. It's hard enough to follow busy irc-hcannels let alone working in between the lines. Furthermore, your newmail notice only appairs when you finish a command and not direclty when new mail arrives.
Best solution would be opening a second console-login or use screen. > Thats a good point you have in there. I bet we'll be seeing quite a bit of > development in the future. after all Gnopernicus already communicates with > Brltty unless I'm much mistaken. Is the newness of the product the reason > why some distroes don't include Gnopernicus even though it's part of Gnome? > Namely the free Mandrake 9.2 CDs lack some essential binary RPMs required by > Gnopernicus. Debian does include gnopernicus and it should indeed talk with brltty. Haven't got time enough to get it working yet under debian. I tried once under the Gentoo-distro which failed. > That's good to hear. Now the troble is, are these Brlty Voyager binaries I > found new enough? The URL is: don't know, you really need to have version 3.5 at least. I'm still running with kernel-module cause I included it for my kernel. > <http://www.brlspeak.net> > > It does not tell the version on the site at all, and those packages only > contain the raw binaries with no accompanying readme files. better compile one yourself I think. > I'll be trying out that serial install method very soon having just burned > the first of the Woody CDs. I've already tested that the serial connection > does work between the machinse using Hyperterminal. before I go on any > further, I'd like to know if I need to alter these Hyperterminal defaults on > the Windows side? well it is possible to do the install directly from the access-floppies or a netboot-mini.iso. However, if you only have a braille-voyager, version 3.5 of brltty needs to be available under debian. Not sure it is. > I suppose most things are all right. The once that do worry me are bps > (which is liekly 9600 by default on Linux), flow control and terminal type. > In particular, should the type be VT100 or TTY? After all, Linux terminals > are called tty as in ttys0 and brltty so I'm a bit confused again. well I think tv100 would to nicely speed is 38400 defualt mostly. > Ah, this is it. I already checked it's the first com port. IT's funny now > that serial ports are considered legacy devices, this laptop came with a > special USB-based serial port adapter that appears to work fine. Now, I'd > say that's really merging new and old technology. yeah I noticed that too, irritating thatis sometimes. cheers, -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn: do ask ;) ----------- chairman Stichting Studiereizen STORM www: http://www.stistusto.nl vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003
