Any News on cut-and-paste bug?

[Kirk Reiser]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Hart Larry wrote:

> Quite some months ago Bill Acker suggested I login as an
> ssh localhost
> on each console where I would want to cut-and-paste.  Well, actually unless 
> there were a way for this anoyance to just ruin 1 tty instead of freeze an 
> entire machine?  I also suppose having a script on bootup log us in a 
> localhost.
> This bug just comes so suddenly, no warning--and-best as we can tell all 
> activity stops.

As far as I know, Chris Brannon submitted a patch to fix the
cut-and-paste lock-up bug somewhere around 3.2.x. I don't know if that
patch ever made it into the kernel speakup version or not.

> I realize-and-appreciate that we have an active community, many who are 
> knowledgeable, ETC.  But it almost seems Speakup may join YASR as having 
> gotten at a certain level-and-thats it.

Without new blood interested in taking speakup further, you may very
well be correct.

> I've been on this list since 2003, but now for `quite some time I still 
> cannot move up past 2.632 as I would have no DecTalk speech.  I think John 
> Heim wrote a patch to fix this, but I have no idea what steps will install?
> And lastly, still about the DecTalk, if we can ever produce a log showing 
> commands which Speakup is sending, James says he can assist.

Unless someone decides to take on writing external drivers for USB and
RS232C synths, you will never see a DECTalk Express fix. The only
support over the past few years has been for the softsynth version of
speakup. There have been a few serial fixes but they have been more of
an aside than anything else. The serial synth substructure is terribly
out of date and nobody appears to be willing to rewrite it.


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Well that's it then, colour me gone!