speakup and garbled text

[Willem van der Walt]

Try using cat on a fairly large text file.
Regards, Willem


On Sun, 28 Apr 2019, Okash Khawaja wrote:

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> On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 11:47:38 -0700
> Chris Brannon <chris at the-brannons.com> wrote:
>
>> Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Apologies for a late follow-up. I am struggling to reproduce
>>> this. Could you explain what you mean by reading large chunk of
>>> text?
>>>
>>> Here is what I did. Set up speakup with espeak. Then in
>>> console, opened spkguide.txt with less. I allowed it to read a full
>>> screen but couldn't find garbled text. Shall I do it with more
>>> screenfuls?
>>
>> Hi,
>> One screenful might be enough or it might not.  This particular bug
>> seems to be really environment-dependent.  I've only seen it on
>> multi-processor systems, or systems using hyperthreading.
>> Just now, I tried reproducing with less, and it didn't show up until
>> the second screen.
> I see. I have tried it on Core i5 with 4 cores. I can try more
> screenfuls and also test on a bigger system.
>
> Thank you
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