Job Access With Speech (JAWS) is a screen reader which runs under
Microsoft MSDOS. JAWS for Windows supports Windows 95, Windows 98 and
Windows NT. Both are products of Henter-Joyce, Inc., 2100 62nd
Avenue North, St. Petersburg, FL 33702, telephone: 800-336-5658. For
details, see
http://www.hj.com.
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.
The SimTel archive is maintained by Keith Petersen
w8sdz@Simtel.Net. 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:
Simtel Ste D-InfoMagic is at 11950 N. Highway 89, Flagstaff AZ 86004, telephone
800-800-6613 or 520-526-9565, fax 520-526-9573, email:
info@infomagic.com, web:
http://www.infomagic.com.
Walnut Creek CDROM has many useful CDROMs.
They are at 4041 Pike , Concord, CA 94520, USA.
Telephone (800) 786-9907 or (510) 674-0783, or FAX (510) 674-0821.
email: orders@cdrom.com. Web:
http://www.cdrom.com/
CraftWork Solutions, 4320 Stevens Creek Blvd,
Suite 170, San Jose CA 95129, telephone 800-985-1878, email:
info@craftwork.com, 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: info@yggdrasil.com, web:
http://www.yggdrasil.com.
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
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 eliz@is.elta.co.il and Darrel Hankerson
hankedr@dms.auburn.edu, 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
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.
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
mernst@theory.lcs.mit.edu at
