JFW was never intended to be a full-fledged DOS screen reader. It was to
simply allow someone who does not have a DOS screen reader the ability to
do a few thing is a DOS box. That is all! There is a generation of
people coming who will hardly ever do anything in DOS, so why
should they have to have another screen reader. If you have a DOS screen
reader, us it and don't rely on JFW to do DOS work. I heard this
explanation from the mouth of Ted Henter.

dotmakr
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On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Steve Zielinski wrote:

> Thanks for the info on the triangle program.  I'll get a copy of it
> immediately and check it out!  It sounds very interesting.
>
> On another note, it seems very odd and strange to me that JFW would
> provide what is essentially less access to DOS applications through their
> windows program than sighted users currently have.  Perhaps JFW is
> jumping the gun, making DOS access more obsolette than even Micro Soft
> would have it, at least until they release windows 98.  It seems to me
> that the best computer access for any blind computer user would consist
> of as much access to all products as possible, not prematurely making it
> more difficult to access what has traditionally been a perfectly good
> operating system for blind people in the pass.  Did JFW put the cart
> before the horse then kill off the orse?
>
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