BRLSTATX
WELCOME TO THE BRAILLESTATX HOME PAGE!
The goal of this project is to provide everyone with a repository of ready-to-use BRLTTY executables. Here, for your convenience, you will find a precompiled stand-alone BRLTTY executable for each supported combination of braille display, commonly used serial port, and text translation table.
This repository currently contains 468 BRLTTY executables (18 braille displays x 2 serial ports x 13 translation tables).
Precompiled, statically linked BRLTTY executables are very useful to blind GNU/Linux newbies. You can use it, for example, to take full advantage of your braille display during your first GNU/Linux installation session. You don't need to enter complicated commands in order to get it to work. All you need to do is to
download the appropriate binary from this site,
to put it on a disk, and to get started! All of this is even true if all you currently have is a Windows or MS-DOS/FreeDOS system.
These ready-to-use BRLTTY binaries are also useful in special situations like, for example, if you'd like to add braille support to a mini-distribution (TomsRtBt, LOAF, Coyote, Trinux, etc.).
These mini-distributions are typically released without a development environment (make, gcc, ld, etc.). In cases like these, having a Ready-To-Go BRLTTY is a great assist!
PREPARING A DISK:
These .tgz packages can be uncompressed and dropped onto a floppy either from
DOS/FreeDOS using
TAR/GUNZIP for DOS
or from Windows using any of a number of available unpackers,
for example:
Of course, one of your GNU/Linux friends can always help you build and install BRLTTY. But now, as an alternative which will increase your independence, they're all freely available right here!
USING THE BRAILLESTATX CD-ROM:
A BrlStatX-CD is available here, providing you with an easy installer for
DOS/FreeDOS, for Windows, and for GNU/Linux.
- Under DOS: simply run ?:\dos_inst.bat, put a formatted disk in drive A:,
and follow the instructions.
- Under Windows: the autorun.inf runs automatically win_xwin.htm; simply surf
over the repository, and be sure you have the right unpacker installed so that
you will be able to build a disk.
- Under GNU/Linux: mount the CD-ROM with the option -o exec so that you will
be able to run the lin_inst.sh script from the CD; follow the instructions.
IMPORTANT:
This site exists solely as a service to you, and its only intended use is that described above.
Once you have a working GNU/Linux system, we recommend switching to a dynamically-linked BRLTTY instead. It's also always better for you to be using the most recent version of BRLTTY (currently maintained by Dave Mielke and many volunteers).
The packages are currently based on
BRLTTY 3.0.
SOME OTHER RELATED LINKS:
Contact me with questions, and tell me if you find this project useful, very useful, bad, or whatever...
Special thanX to Dave Mielke for his kind collaboration, and for debugging my English :-)
osvaLdo La Rosa:~#
Last updated: 10-01-2008
This project is supported by
The BLinuxman.net
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