dosgate v.1.0, a Linux+dosemu interface to dos-based screen readers. This is the first release of dosgate, a program to recreate in a dosemu session every i/o event that would occur during normal linux console routine. This is useful to use every dos screen reader that works under dosemu as a Linux screen reader. Note that if your braille display is supported by the excellent BRLTTY you'd best give it a try: it will surely give you more power and less problems. dosgate consists of a dos program and the Linux 'vkeyboard' kernel module, both licensed under the GNU Public License. I tried to put up a little script to automate installation in some way: to use it, follow these instructions: - Prepare a dos boot floppy with your screen reader software - Put in that floppy a batch file named 'reader.bat' that starts your screen reader - Insert the floppy in your floppy drive - Run ./install [floppy device], where is the directory when I can put everything is needed to start dosgate and [floppy device] is the device where install can find your floppy (if omitted it defaults to /dev/fd0) - Hope, pray, cross your fingers, smoke a joint, do whatever your religion suggests you to bring luck - Change into and run ./dosgate Note that this script is intended to be more something to read to know how to get things done than something to run to get things done. I need help here! I do not know how to run parallel port screen readers under dosemu, nether how to automatically setup devices on ports greather than /dev/ttyS1 (like dos COM3 and COM4)! I just tested everything with a TSI Navigator on COM1, so it might not work out of the box for you. If you incurr in any problem, have suggestion or want to help, feel free to contact me by e-mail at zinie@cs.unibo.it. Any help is really appreciated. Good Linux screen reading! Enrico P.S. The dos executable is compiled from the included sources using an old Borland Turbo C. Thanks goes to: Nicolas Pitre, nearly a co-author Vainer Broccoli, for the need that gave me the idea Leo Cerreta, for lending me a braille display Andrea Arcangeli, for help on vkeyboard Leonardo Serni, for help on dos deep hacking Riccardo Sisti, for answering questions about screen readers Mauro Fontana, for help on dos programming ...and more I probably forgot.