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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: message of great interest for blind cygwin usersmessage of great interest for blind cygwin users
From: alex wallis <alexwallis646_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:36:38 -0000 hi list. I just thought that blind users of cygwin might find the following information very interesting. As I am sure we all remember, the cygwin setup package isn't what you'd call friendly to jaws and other screen readers when it comes to selecting packages. We can select hole categories, but not packages as a result we can often waste large amounts of disc space. Anyway, I found that for various reasons my cygwin wasn't installing propperly and the packages I had got someone sighted to help me download wern't installing. So I decided enough is enough and wrote to the cygwin package list explaining the issues that blind people face when using cygwin. This is the response I got to my message. I am sure you will agree, very interesting. I haven't tried this out, but I intend to as soon as I have sent this message. reply to my message on the cygwin package list. alex wallis wrote: Hi list I am fairly new to cygwin and am writing to ask a few questions about selecting packages when installing cygwin. My problem I am facing is this. I am blind, as a result in order to use a computer I use a program called a screen reader. <snip> Fortunately, the latest version of setup for 1.7 allows package selection from the command line. This is a _huge_ (ok maybe not that big) deal for users exactly like you. You can do things like: setup -q -n -D -L %SITE% %LOCALDIR% %PACKAGES% if you set up environment variables for SITE, LOCALDIR, and PACKAGES. Note that PACKAGES should be a comma separated list of packages you want to install with NO SPACES between entries. All the dependencies ar looked after automagically. Good luck! Ralph Very interesting I am sure you will agree, although it would be nice to have access to the gui rather than having to use the command line its still very nice to no about and a very big step in the right direction. It should certainly make setting up for rockbox a lot easier. Received on 2009-01-28 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |