Hi Howard.

I think we are in general agreement on your main point, here.

On your last question, I have seen this on a couple of systems at work, and 
have never figured out quite why it happens.  Perhaps, as I read on, 
someone else will come up with the answer.  But I can tell you that the 
majority of the systems that I work with don't truncate these names, but a 
few stubbornly do, and it irks me as much as you when it happens.  If 
anyone can shed some light on it, I'm all ears.

73, de Lou K2LKK

At 11:43 AM 1/25/2007 -0600, you wrote:
>Yes it shows off scripting nicely.  the window-eyes title bar reads
>the information manually, and I don't know why it can'b be triggered
>automatically, but I sure haven't been able to do it, and I figure
>their are minds much better than nmine who would have done it if it
>was easy.  I don't want and have tried not to be catigorized as a
>freedom jfw basher, just because it is big.  I have tried to advocate
>for choice and to express valid concerns about jfw and freedom
>scientiffic's draw bbacks.  No company or product is perfect.  The
>issue here is that their are a number of choices.  People aught to be
>able to make enformed choices about the options, especially when the
>money on the table is their own money.
>Most all of what we do is windows, and not screen reader spaciffic
>after all.  A competant computer user who needs one screen reader for
>work, but has learned on another, should be able to make the transition.
>It's not exactly like going from unix to windows.  People make the
>chasum that wide.  but windows hot keys are in windows, not in any
>screen reader.  I hear that jfw takes over a few of them, but their
>is still a bypass key if necessary, and I think most of that is in
>name, not in function.
>I use window-eyes when I can, and jfw when I have to.
>I wonder, what do you have to do to get jfw to read a file list with
>your chosen details properly.  Their way of trunkating names makes
>many operations very difficult.  I assume their is a work around
>which I wish they would put in their default set up.
>
>
>
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