Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Re: cd burning?]

2010-04-06 Thread Michael C. Robinson
Well Karen, I don't know much about screen readers and DOS let alone screen readers and Linux or screen readers and Windows. I feel after reading your response, especially the laugh out loud part, that you were rude and not in line with the spirit of don't turn this mailing list into what is seen

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Re: cd burning?]

2010-04-06 Thread Karen Lewellen
Well, I can respect your choice as to interpretation. As Indicated, I was amazed to get Eric's assumption based questions, and not on list where such questions belonged. Given the spirit of exploration, I would have expected, are screen readers in Dos difficult? etc. I did not get this, nor eve

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Re: cd burning?]

2010-04-06 Thread Karen Lewellen
I almost forgot, there are about a dozen or so screen readers for dos. On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > Well Karen, > > I don't know much about screen readers and DOS let alone screen readers > and Linux or screen readers and Windows. I feel after reading your > response, especi

[Freedos-user] Multitiasking under DOS ?

2010-04-06 Thread jasse...@itelefonica.com.br
Karen Lewellen said: > really? I have no trouble say running a CD in > the background while I use wordperfect to create > a document and go on line for research. AFAIK, the first part is no surprise, for a CD drive can play music almost autonomously, once started. But how do you manage to do

Re: [Freedos-user] Multitiasking under DOS ?

2010-04-06 Thread Geraldo Netto
Btw, while we can't push any much modern idea would be possible to implement a thread facility in FD kernel using protothread http://www.sics.se/~adam/pt/ ? it would allow many interesting things or at least, we could use on FD install to unzip packages in parallel? See Ya ps: i hope, i wish to n