initializing speakup
Gregory Nowak
gnowak1 at uic.edu
Fri Jan 11 15:24:20 EST 2002
That's a grate idea, and it saves Kirk and others coding time and effort better spent elsewhere.
Greg
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:25:23AM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> Initializing speakup (or reinitializing it) is so simple from a
> shell prompt that it probably is not worth making it a speakup
> builtin feature. With a little preparation first, which I will
> explain in a moment, it can be done with a command like this (the
> "-R" is upper case):
>
> cp -R /etc/speakup /proc
>
> You could further simplify that command by creating a very short
> script or even using an alias.
>
> The preparation involves first creating an appropriate
> /etc/speakup directory that can just be copied wholesale into
> /proc/speakup, but that only needs to be done once. Here is how I
> did it:
>
> First, issue the following command:
>
> cp -R /proc/speakup /etc
>
> Now you have an exact copy under /etc/speakup of what started out
> in /proc/speakup, but there is more to do. The problem is that
> some of the "files" under /proc/speakup are read-only and others
> are read-write, and you have to find out which is which and
> eliminate the read-only elements under /etc/speakup. Once you do
> that, the command I gave earlier is ready to go.
>
> I have included the initialization command in my rc.local file
> and also in /etc/profile. This may sound redundant, but there
> have been times when putting it only in rc.local has failed to
> work because the synth was busy speaking bootup messages when the
> command was executed. The repetition in /etc/profile is
> insurance, and it also lets me reinitialize the synth each time I
> log into a new account, or reenter once I have been using.
>
> Chuck
>
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