Tips for using terminal with VO?

2010-09-16 Thread Garry Turkington
Hi, Every so often I try moving my terminal-related activities from either a Windows or Linux box to the Mac. And each time I find the interaction between VO and the Mac terminal sufficiently frustrating that I give up for another 6 months. After just changing jobs I'm trying to rationalise my I

Tips for using terminal with VO?

2010-09-17 Thread .dan.
One thing when using the terminal and if connecting to other shells on other machines is to make sure the vt 100 imulation is chosen in a set statement. This translates keyboard input correctly to other machines. This has to be done in the mac terminal and on each of any other shells. Many

Re: Tips for using terminal with VO?

2010-09-16 Thread Scott Howell
My opinion is that you use something like VMWare's Fusion and setup a simple Linux distro with Speakup and perform your shell-based activities there. On Sep 16, 2010, at 4:57 AM, Garry Turkington wrote: > Hi, > > Every so often I try moving my terminal-related activities from either > a Windows

Re: Tips for using terminal with VO?

2010-09-16 Thread Garry Turkington
Hi Scott, That's exactly what I've been doing, though currently with VMware Workstation on a Windows host. I have Fusion on my personal MBP but may have some issues putting a VM atop my Mac at work. Given the Mac is built atop Unix and VO almost works with terminal though I'd really prefer to ha

Re: Tips for using terminal with VO?

2010-09-16 Thread Scott Granados
That actually sounds like a really inteersting option. I'm liking terminal but fusion seems very powerful and I like the idea of reving up virtual machines to quickly prototype an environment. On Sep 16, 2010, at 6:40 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > My opinion is that you use something like VMWare

Re: Tips for using terminal with VO?

2010-09-16 Thread Scott Howell
Garry, although VO certainly works better with the Terminal than it has and does a great job for the limited things I need it for, I have not found it to be quite the entire replacement for Speakup and the shell. I hope someone does have other suggestions. On Sep 16, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Garry Tu