I guessed as much!  Actually, there's a whole lot of stuff that won't work
well on default settings, not least the otherwise excellent spell checker
that effectively learns the user's phonetic spelling rules and so becomes
more helpful as time goes on.  There are also the personal dictionaries that
I encourage students to create (proper names, foreign phrases, unusual
technical terms associated with the discipline they study).  Unless the
network is able to dedicate server space to each individual user, TextHELP
never seems like a sensible option to me: it's not impossible, it's just
that network providers are generally unwilling to commit resources to this.
Given the pricing, I don't any advantage over installing individual copies
on dedicated machines or running them from a small lan within the larger
network.  I like TextHELP: in general, it seems well designed and relatively
bug free but I don't think networking was ever really part of the original
design spec.

Regards, Bernard



Bernard Doherty
Assessor
East Anglia Regional ACCESS Centre
Anglia Polytechnic University
East Road
Cambridge CB1 1PT

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Cunningham" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: deregister (Read and Write Software)


> Apologies - the last email I sent should have been under the above heading
> and not the deregister one!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Cunningham
> Sent: 10 August 2004 13:26
> To: 'Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.'
> Subject: RE: deregister
>
> I actually asked the support staff of THR&W whether or not it would be
> possible to run the software over a network via Citrix (Terminal Services)
a
> couple of months ago.  The answer they gave me was a simple NO!
>
> To get it to work on a network, certain aspects of the program would have
to
> be installed locally on every machine that is on the network - this kind
of
> defeats the object of installing it on to a network and would be
> difficult/impossible for some organisations with 2000+ work stations both
on
> an often more importantly, off campus/site.
>
> Without trying it myself I would actually say it might work on the network
> as long as you don't mind losing the speech/sound functionality as I
believe
> the synthesizer would be the function of the program that needs to be
> installed locally.  As I said, I haven't tried this myself but it might be
> worth a shot.
>
> Hope this helps
> Tim
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Rice [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 09 August 2004 12:49
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: deregister
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Judith Jones
> Sent: 09 August 2004 12:04
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: deregister
>
> Please remove me from the mailing list
> Thanks
> Judith Jones
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> Hello Judith
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>
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