Configuration Files

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Here is how I do it:

I maintain a directory under /etc called speakup which contains
all the elements of /proc/speakup which are configurable. Some
elements under /proc/speakup are not configurable; they are
read-only. But such things as rate, pitch, punc_level, and the
strings for some and most punctuation, can be written as well as
read.

I have a command in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and again in
/etc/profile, like this:

cp -R /etc/speakup /proc

so that on bootup and whenever a user logs in, speakup is
configured to whatever the values are in the /etc/speakup
directory.

So to change something I must either write the new value to
/proc/speakup, or else edit the stuff in /etc/speakup and then
execute a command such as shown above.

This is not particularly user friendly either, but it is a good
starting point. I believe Janina and others who use more than one
synth from time to time have worked out an even more elaborate
but more flexible method of saving and restoring speakup
parameters.

HTH -

Chuck

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Luke Davis wrote:

> Useful knowledge, which I previously did not have.
>
> So should all configuration be handled this way, thus making a
> configuration file approach meaningless, or is there still potential for
> value to that idea, either now or for future configurable options?
>
> I don't particularly mind writing values to /proc entries every time I
> want to change the punctuation level, but I am not all users, and some
> might want a more intuitive way of handling this, such as an rc or other
> such file.
>
> I would like any opinions I can get.
>
> Luke
>
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
>
> > Speakup presently allows punctuation level to be set at none,
> > some, most, or all. The some and most levels can be configured by
> > the user to include or exclude whatever he or she wishes. You
> > select the level by writing a number to /proc/speakup/punc_level,
> > and you can edit and rewrite the some and most strings to that
> > directory too. I am not sure what other functionality would be
> > added by Luke's suggestions. Maybe I am misunderstanding
> > something, but it seems to me the existing features will do
> > pretty much whatever one wishes.
> >
> >
> >
>
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