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6. Footnotes and References

6.1 JAWS

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.

6.2 TELIX

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.

6.3 COMMO

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.

6.4 SimTel

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:

6.5 InfoMagic

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.

6.6 Walnut Creek

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/

6.7 Red Hat

Red Hat Software: telephone 800-454-5502 or 203-454-5500, fax: 203-454-2582, email: [email protected]. Web: http://www.redhat.com.

6.8 Craftwork

CraftWork Solutions, 4320 Stevens Creek Blvd, Suite 170, San Jose CA 95129, telephone 800-985-1878, email: [email protected], web: http://www.craftwork.com.

6.9 Yggdrasil

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.

6.10 Emacs for DOS

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

6.11 GNU Mirror Sites

The GNU collection at ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu is mirrored at many sites. Mirrors in USA include these:

6.12 Emacspeak with Earlier Slackware Releases

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:

For two DB9 connectors, the connections are:

For a DB9 (listed first) to a DB25 (second), the connections are:

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