changing voice in speakup

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Okay, let's take this from the top.

First of all, Kirk's reply to your first post on this thread gave you 
exact commands to examine and to change the /proc/speakup/voice feature, 
and they did not include typing "/proc/speakup/voice" or using an 
editor on it.

The "access denied" message came about because the pseudo-file 
/proc/speakup/voice did not have execute permissions, as it should not 
have, and yet you typed it as though it were a command instead of a 
psuedo-file. You cannot access it in order to execute it. That does not 
compute.

Next, Kenny's observation is correct. The 0 you saw in your editor is 
the current value of /proc/speakup/voice, and the subsequent tildes were 
in the rightmost column of the remaining lines on your screen, telling 
you that those lines did not exist in the file.

Third, as Kirrk pointed out, it is not appropriate to use and editor on 
entries in /proc, which is not a true file system but a "pseudo" file 
system. Instead you reveal the contents of elements in that system 
with the "ls" or the "cat" command, and you change them with the "echo" 
command and the redirection mechanism.

When I saw Kirk's response to your inquiry I followed his suggestions 
and found that it works fine on my system.

HTH

Chuck


On Wed, 4 May 2005, EPYD Productions wrote:

> hello sir
> i'm sorry you aare miss-construdding the title of tech as a know it all of
> some sorts. i am not. i am just a tech who  deals more with networking and
> hardware than with the speakup and things. i'm vary new to speakup and new
> to its vast array of options and ways to tweak it. i apologize if i can't
> make it much clearer but this is what the system tells me when i am logged
> in as root
> when i type /proc/speakup/voice it tells me "permission denied".
> when i view it in a vi session i do see the zero. what do i do within this
> file to change the "voice output of the doubletalk lite"? i'm coming to this
> list hunbbly sir, seeking assistance and i tell you the title tech doesn't
> always mean i have the answer to questions and sometimes i ask them my self.
> Blind Tech
> website: http://www.users.qwest.net/~drjann/epyd/
> contact info can be found on website
> email list: EPYD Radio-subscribe at yahoogroups.com
> EPYD the only place to be!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny at hittsjunk.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 8:42 PM
> Subject: Re: changing voice in speakup
>
>
> | Hi.
> |
> | I'm confused.  You say "you can't access the file" and then access the
> | file in an editor.
> | I'm just a user, not a tech guy, but if you can look at the file in an
> | editor, then you can access it.
> |
> | I remember telling you the contents of /proc/speakup/voice was an int.
> | Last I heard, 0 is an int.  My version of vi uses tilde to show empty
> | lines.  So, if I open a file in vi that contains just an int (0), I will
> | see exactly what you describe.
> |
> | Please explain to someone who is just a user what you mean.  After all,
> you are
> | the "tech".
> |
> |           Kenny
> |
> | On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 07:46:16PM -0700, EPYD Productions wrote:
> | > this was logged in as root. and even tried opening it with vi and it was
> | > emty but a zero and tildes.
> | > Blind Tech
> | > website: http://www.users.qwest.net/~drjann/epyd/
> | > contact info can be found on website
> | > email list: EPYD Radio-subscribe at yahoogroups.com
> | > EPYD the only place to be!
> | > ----- Original Message -----
> | > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> | > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> | > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 6:44 PM
> | > Subject: Re: changing voice in speakup
> | >
> | >
> | > | EPYD Productions writes:
> | > | > tried accessing /proc/speakup/voice and "permission denied"
> | > |
> | > |
> | > | Oh dear. Here we go with Unix 101 again ...
> | > |
> | > | So, who accessed /proc/speakup/voice
> | > |
> | > | To find out the answer, type:
> | > |
> | > | whoami
> | > |
> | > | or
> | > |
> | > | who am i
> | > |
> | > |
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