Job Access With Speech (JAWS) is a screen reader which runs under
Microsoft MSDOS. It is a product of Henter-Joyce, Inc., 2100 62nd
Avenue Nort, St. Petersburg, FL 33702, telephone: 800-336-5658. A
demo of JAWS for DOS is available at
ftp://ftp.hj.com/pub/jh/dosdemos/JAWS231D.EXE.
TELIX is a shareware terminal emulator for MSDOS. It can be obtained
by FTP from the SimTel archive [
SimTel]. Within the SimTel collection, look for
directory msdos/telix. For example, try
ftp://ftp.coast.net/pub/SimTel/msdos/telix. The latest
version of the program itself is in the four files tlx322-1.zip,
tlx322-2.zip, tlx322-3.zip, and tlx322-4.zip.
COMMO is another shareware terminal emulator for DOS. In the SimTel
archive [
SimTel], it is in
directory msdos/commprog, file commo66.zip
. For example, try
ftp://ftp.coast.net/pub/SimTel/msdos/commprog/commo66.zip.
The SimTel archive is maintained by Keith Petersen
[email protected]
. CD-ROM copies of Simtel.Net collections are
available from Walnut Creek CDROM [
Walnut Creek]. The primary ftp sites are
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet, and
oak.oakland.edu://pub/simtelnet. There are many mirror sites,
as listed in the following table:
- US, ALL (primary)
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet
- US, California
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet
- US, California
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/micro/pc/simtelnet
- US, California
ftp://ftp.lib.sonoma.edu/pub/simtelnet
- US, Illinois
ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/systems/pc/simtelnet
- US, Massachusetts
ftp://ftp.bu.edu/pub/mirrors/simtelnet
- US, Michigan
ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/simtelnet
- US, New York
ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/systems/simtelnet
- US, Oklahoma
ftp://ftp.ou.edu/pub/simtelnet
- US, Oregon
ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/simtelnet
- US, Pennsylvania
ftp://ftp.epix.net/pub/simtelnet
- US, Utah
ftp://ftp.cyber-naut.com/pub/simtelnet
- US, Virginia
ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/simtelnet
- Argentina
ftp://ftp.satlink.com/pub/mirrors/simtelnet
- Australia
ftp://ftp.iniaccess.net.au/pub/simtelnet
- Australia
ftp://sunsite.anu.edu.au/pub/pc/simtelnet
- Austria, Vienna
ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/mirror/simtelnet
- Belgium
ftp://ftp.linkline.be/mirror/simtelnet
- Belgium
ftp://ftp.tornado.be/pub/simtelnet
- Bulgaria
ftp://ftp.eunet.bg/pub/simtelnet
- Brazil
ftp://ftp.iis.com.br/pub/simtelnet
- Brazil
ftp://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/simtelnet
- Canada, Ottawa
ftp://ftp.crc.doc.ca/systems/ibmpc/simtelnet
- Canada, Vancouver
ftp://ftp.direct.ca/pub/simtelnet
- Chile
ftp://sunsite.dcc.uchile.cl/pub/Mirror/simtelnet
- China
ftp://ftp.pku.edu.cn/pub/simtelnet
- Czech Republic
ftp://ftp.eunet.cz/pub/simtelnet
- Czech Republic
ftp://ftp.zcu.cz/pub/simtelnet
- Czech Republic
ftp://pub.vse.cz/pub/simtelnet
- Finland
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/mirrors/ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet
- France
ftp://ftp.grolier.fr/pub/simtelnet
- France
ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/simtelnet
- Germany
ftp://ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de/pub/simtelnet
- Germany
ftp://ftp.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/simtelnet
- Germany
ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/simtelnet
- Germany
ftp://ftp.uni-heidelberg.de/pub/simtelnet
- Germany
ftp://ftp.uni-magdeburg.de/pub/mirrors/simtelnet
- Germany
ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/simtelnet
- Germany
ftp://ftp.uni-trier.de/pub/pc/mirrors/Simtel.net
- Germany
ftp://ftp.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de/pub/pc/simtelnet
- Greece
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/pc/simtelnet
- Hong Kong
ftp://ftp.cs.cuhk.hk/pub/simtelnet
- Hong Kong
ftp://ftp.hkstar.com/pub/simtelnet
- Hong Kong
ftp://sunsite.ust.hk/pub/simtelnet
- Ireland
ftp://ftp.iol.ie/pub/simtelnet
- Israel
ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/simtelnet
- Italy
ftp://cis.utovrm.it/simtelnet
- Italy
ftp://ftp.flashnet.it/pub/simtelnet
- Italy
ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/simtelnet
- Italy
ftp://mcftp.mclink.it/pub/simtelnet
- Japan
ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/simtelnet
- Japan
ftp://ftp.riken.go.jp/pub/simtelnet
- Japan
ftp://ftp.saitama-u.ac.jp/pub/simtelnet
- Japan
ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/PC/simtelnet
- Japan
ftp://ftp.web.ad.jp/pub/simtelnet
- Japan
ftp://ring.aist.go.jp/pub/simtelnet
- Japan
ftp://ring.asahi-net.or.jp/pub/simtelnet
- Latvia
ftp://ftp.lanet.lv/pub/mirror/simtelnet
- Malaysia
ftp://ftp.jaring.my/pub/simtelnet
- Malaysia
ftp://ftp.mimos.my/pub/simtelnet
- Mexico
ftp://ftp.gdl.iteso.mx/pub/simtelnet
- Netherlands
ftp://ftp.euro.net/d5/simtelnet
- Netherlands
ftp://ftp.nic.surfnet.nl/mirror-archive/software/simtelnet
- New Zealand
ftp://ftp.vuw.ac.nz/pub/simtelnet
- Norway
ftp://ftp.bitcon.no/pub/simtelnet
- Poland
ftp://ftp.cyf-kr.edu.pl/pub/mirror/Simtel.Net
- Poland
ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/simtelnet
- Poland
ftp://ftp.man.poznan.pl/pub/simtelnet
- Portugal
ftp://ftp.ip.pt/pub/simtelnet
- Portugal
ftp://ftp.ua.pt/pub/simtelnet
- Romania
ftp://ftp.sorostm.ro/pub/simtelnet
- Singapore
ftp://ftp.nus.sg/pub/simtelnet
- Slovakia
ftp://ftp.uakom.sk/pub/simtelnet
- Slovenia
ftp://ftp.arnes.si/software/simtelnet
- South Africa
ftp://ftp.is.co.za/pub/simtelnet
- South Africa
ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/pub/simtelnet
- South Korea
ftp://ftp.nuri.net/pub/simtelnet
- South Korea
ftp://ftp.sogang.ac.kr/pub/simtelnet
- South Korea
ftp://sunsite.snu.ac.kr/pub/simtelnet
- Spain
ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/simtelnet
- Sweden
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/simtelnet
- Switzerland
ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/simtelnet
- Taiwan
ftp://ftp.ncu.edu.tw/Packages/simtelnet
- Taiwan
ftp://nctuccca.edu.tw/mirror/simtelnet
- Thailand
ftp://ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/mirrors/simtelnet
- UK, Edinburgh
ftp://emwac.ed.ac.uk/mirrors/simtelnet
- UK, London
ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/simtelnet
- UK, Lancaster
ftp://micros.hensa.ac.uk/pub/simtelnet
- UK, London
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/simtelnet
InfoMagic is at 11950 N. Highway 89, Flagstaff AZ 86004, telephone
800-800-6613 or 520-526-9565, fax 520-526-9573, email:
[email protected], web:
http://www.infomagic.com.
Walnut Creek CDROM has many useful CDROMs.
They are at 4041 Pike Lane, Ste D-Simtel, Concord, CA 94520, USA.
Telephone (800) 786-9907 or (510) 674-0783, or FAX (510) 674-0821.
email: [email protected]. Web:
http://www.cdrom.com/
Red Hat Software: telephone 800-454-5502 or
203-454-5500, fax: 203-454-2582, email: [email protected]. Web:
http://www.redhat.com.
CraftWork Solutions, 4320 Stevens Creek Blvd,
Suite 170, San Jose CA 95129, telephone 800-985-1878, email:
[email protected], web:
http://www.craftwork.com.
Yggdrasil Computing, 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite
205, San Jose CA 95129-1024, telephone 800-261-6630 or 408-261-6630,
fax: 408-261-6631, email: [email protected], web:
http://www.yggdrasil.com.
From the Emacs FAQ of November 11, 1996:
--begin quote
93: Where can I get Emacs for my PC running MS-DOS?
A pre-built binary distribution of Emacs 19.34 should be available
by the beginning of November 1996 from the Simtel archives, the main
site of which is at
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/
If you prefer to compile Emacs for yourself, you will need a 386 (or
better) processor, and are running MS-DOS 3.0 or later. According
to Eli Zaretskii [email protected]
and Darrel Hankerson
[email protected]
, you will need the following:
Compiler: djgpp version 1.12 maint 1 or later. Djgpp 2.0 or later is
recommended, since 1.x is being phased out. Djgpp 2 supports
long filenames under Windows 95.
You can get the latest release of djgpp by retrieving
all of the files in
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp
Gunzip and tar:
The easiest way is to use "djtar" which comes with djgpp
v2.x, because it can open gzip'ed tarfiles (i.e., those
ending with ".tar.gz") in one step. Djtar comes in
"djdev201.zip", from the URL mentioned above.
Utilities: make, mv, sed, rm.
All of these utilities are available at
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu
16-bit utilities can be found in GNUish:
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/gnuish
The file INSTALL in the top-level directory of the Emacs source
contains some additional information regarding Emacs under MS-DOS.
In addition, the file etc/MSDOS contains some information on the
differences between the Unix and MS-DOS versions of Emacs.
For the most comprehensive information on running GNU Emacs on a PC,
see the file prepared by Michael Ernst
[email protected]
at
ftp://theory.lcs.mit.edu/pub/emacs/pc-emacs.gz
For a list of other MS-DOS implementations of Emacs (and Emacs
look-alikes), consult the list of "Emacs implementations and
literature," available at
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.emacs/
Note that while many of these programs look similar to Emacs, they
often lack certain features, such as the Emacs Lisp extension
language.
--end quote
The GNU collection at
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu is
mirrored at many sites. Mirrors in USA include these:
If you want to install Slackware 3.0 or earlier, you will need to
prepare a full null modem cable, including modem control signals.
For two DB25 (25 pin) connectors, the required connections are:
- 1 (Frame Ground) - 1 (Frame Ground)
- 2 (Receive Data) - 3 (Transmit Data)
- 3 (Transmit Data) - 2 (Receive Data)
- 4 (Request To Send) - 5 (Clear To Send)
- 5 (Clear To Send) - 4 (Request To Send)
- 6 (Data Set Ready) - 20 (Data Terminal Ready)
- 7 (Signal Ground) - 7 (Signal Ground)
- 8 (Carrier Detect) - 20 (Data Terminal Ready)
- 20 (Data Terminal Ready) - 6 (Data Set Ready)
- 20 (Data Terminal Ready) - 8 (Carrier Detect)
For two DB9 connectors, the connections are:
- 1 (Carrier Detect) - 4 (Data Terminal Ready)
- 2 (Receive Data) - 3 (Transmit Data)
- 3 (Transmit Data) - 2 (Receive Data)
- 4 (Data Terminal Ready) - 6 (Data Set Ready)
- 4 (Data Terminal Ready) - 1 (Carrier Detect)
- 5 (Signal Ground) - 5 (Signal Ground)
- 6 (Data Set Ready) - 4 (Data Terminal Ready)
- 7 (Request To Send) - 8 (Clear To Send)
- 8 (Clear To Send) - 7 (Request To Send)
- 9 (Ring Indicator) not connected
For a DB9 (listed first) to a DB25 (second), the connections are:
- 1 (Carrier Detect) - 20 (Data Terminal Ready)
- 2 (Receive Data) - 2 (Transmit Data)
- 3 (Transmit Data) - 3 (Receive Data)
- 4 (Data Terminal Ready) - 6 (Data Set Ready)
- 4 (Data Terminal Ready) - 8 (Carrier Detect)
- 5 (Signal Ground) - 7 (Signal Ground)
- 6 (Data Set Ready) - 20(Data Terminal Ready)
- 7 (Request To Send) - 5 (Clear To Send)
- 8 (Clear To Send) - 4 (Request To Send)
- 9 (Ring Indicator) not connected