Scott, you are correct about what I meant when I say I use Windows as a
workstation for linux systems administration.
I have never been able to get putty working with jaws. I downloaded jaws
scripts but they didn't help much. I don't rememberwhere I got them from.
Maybe better scripts are available today.
So instead I use openssh for Windows. It runs in a command window so you
have all the jaws functionality that you'd have in any command window. But
that's not that great because its nearly impossible to use any curses app
run on the linux machine. You can run vi, for example, and if you work at it
hard enough, you can make some minor edits. But I wouldn't want to do much
more than change a character or 2.
The tool I usually use for editing files on a linux machine is sftpdrive.
This program allows you to map a Windows network share to any machine
running sftp. It looks just like any other network drive on your Windows
machine. So then you can use your favorite Windows text editor to change
config files. Very slick.
For windows text editing, I use a program called TextPad. I like it because
its simple and you can configure it to use standard windows text editing
commands. You know what I mean? Control+f should bring up a find dialog box.
F3 should be find next. Any text editor that doesn't follow conventions like
that is goofy. They can have their own key binding if they want but you
ought to be able to configure it for standard key bindings.
Sftpdrive and TextPad aren't free. I think they're both around $40.
Other tools that I use pretty regularly are NVDA and a USB headset. I have
NVDA on a thumb drive so I can plug in the headset, insert the thumb drive
which brings up a dialog box offereing to start NVDA. I press enter and I
have speech on just about any Windows machine.
Then I have a hardware speech synth and a grml CD handy for linux
emergencies. We get all of our computers from Dell and I have yet to see one
without a serial port.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Granados"
If I could add to this.
What I think he's driving at is he uses the windows box as his main terminal or interface. JFW or another reader virbalizes the output from programs like putty or secure crt which you would use to then connect to the unix machine. You would have the TTS output from JFW on your windows desktop but your actually say working on a machine in another room, or state or country.