speakout/direct and control codes

[John Covici]

I tried the following from the terminal

echo \\005v4 >/proc/speakup/speakout/direct and it lowered the volume
as it should.

In Perl you may need some more escapes, but that's another issue.

"Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com> writes:

> Yes, I was using echo commands.  I thought the backslash was the escape
> code needed; didn't know another one was needed.  I just went over and
> tried it with \\x05... and it does seem to work as advertised.  However,
> \\005 did not.  Perhaps I'm missing something when it comes to escaping
> values with the bash shell.  The speakout has some neat features and I
> think it will be fun to write some perl scripts or something to use these
> features.  It is a kind of take back to the DOS days when we could echo
> whatever we wanted to the synthesiser.
> 
> Sorry for the false alarm, Jim and Kirt.
> 
> 
> On 30 Mar 2001, John Covici wrote:
> 
> > If you are using echo statements, don't forget to double the back
> > slahs because its necessary for the shell to see a backslash.
> > 
> > "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com> writes:
> > 
> > > I just installed the latest CVS version of speakup using the 2.2.18 kernel
> > > and I find that the control-E character does not get escaped when sending
> > > it to /proc/speakup/speakout/direct.  When I use \005 in front of a
> > > command, I hear "005" followed by the command.  I get similar results when
> > > trying ^E and such.  Isn't this supposed to work?
> > > 
> > > Let me know if I missed something.
> > > 
> > > P.S.  I know I'm running the latest version since I can get tone J to take
> > > now.  That didn't work with speakup-0.10A production version.
> > > 
> > > 
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         John Covici
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