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Osvaldo La Rosa <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: BRaiLleSPEAK
System name: brlspeak
This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

My project does provide a simple but blindfriendly method for braille-dependent 
users to preconfigure their braille display driver before running Linux.
The distribution that is used here is called BrlSpeak; it has been built by me, 
it is an UMSDOS Mini-Distribution of Linux that can be unpacked on a FAT 
harddisk, and started with LoadLin.
BrlSpeak is based on another Mini-Distribution called ZipSpeak, made by Matthew 
Campbell. (Notice that ZipSpeak was based on the ZipSlack distribution, cf. 
Slackware).
The purpose is here to add a full functional and easy to use preconfiguration 
tool, in fact a Public batch-file, (provided with the package), so that blind 
persons can prepare the configuration file for the braille device before 
running BrlSpeak.
But it also includes automated compilation of the braille driver + activation 
of the braille display at boot time. (Note that the braille driver package used 
here in BrlSpeak, is BrlTty; for speech there is the SpeakUp package built-in.)
The main objective is to offer to braille-dependent people a unique Linux 
distribution that they can install, without any external assistance of a valid 
person.
I finished to build BrlSpeak on Nov 1, 2001, I posted it on November the 17th, 
2001; so, it already exists and you can see it at 
http://www.audiobraille.org/blinux/brlspeak.html The download URL is: 
http://www.audiobraille.org/blinux/brlspeak.zip
All instructions and details are available in the BRLSPEAK.TXT file that comes 
with the BrlSpeak ZIP file.
The BrlSpeak utilities, as well as the CFG.BAT for preconfiguring the braille 
device driver, are available in the BRLSPEAK directory.
Installing BrlSpeak is very easy:
you just need an utility such as Infozip\'s UNZIP.EXE to unpack the 
BRLSPEAK.ZIP on a FAT partition where you have DOS;
then you enter the LINUX directory, and, after reading the documentation, you 
type: CFG \'enter\' and follows all instructions (these are self-explanatory 
and you have a \"ready to go\" Linux in a few minutes).
I hope this Mini-Distribution can contribute to a better accessibility (without 
special knowledge) to the GNU/Linux OS: it was for me a dream to realize this,
and I\'m proud today to be able to offer this BrlSpeak distribution to the 
world.
Greetings,
Osvaldo La Rosa.