Re: saving rate

["Igor Gueths" <igueths@attbi.com>]

Hi Janina. What I ended up doing was writing a start-up script which will run the alias command at boot time, because when I had to reboot to load my new rebuilt kernel, I saw that the alias s had been removed for some reason. Will have to dig around to find out why.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Janina Sajka <janina@afb.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: saving rate


> Yes, this will work very well, Igor.
> 
> I started with this kind of alias too. But I soon discovered that I might want to reset my punctuation level, and my
> default voice. And, as you suggest, I do have several synths that I might happen to be using.
> 
> The quotes are important, I think. I have never tried without them, in any case. I think of them as identifying a single
> entity in the alias--all of the params to the right of the equals sign.
> 
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
> 
> > Hi Janina. I know this might be stupid, but I would think you leave the
> > quotes in in this case? Normally I wouldn't be asking this, but judging
> > from the fact that its a script we're talking about, do the quotes serve
> > as identifiers to the command itself, and the ` just means a next-command
> > type function? Based on your alias command, I have derived the following.
> > Note: Going to leave in quotes for now, bug please correct if wrong.
> > 
> > alias s="echo 350 >/proc/speakup/rate"
> > 
> > In Theory, I would think that the above command aliased to s would
> > reset the rate back to 350. The reason I left out copying the values to
> > /etc is because I don't have more than one synth (it could be different in
> > your case), so I figured I'd just leave it in /proc/speakup.
> > 
> > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > 
> > > No, not saving. You then have to copy those values into /proc/speakup. Let me go get my alias command ...
> > >
> > > alias s="cp /etc/speakup/`cat /proc/speakup/synth`/* /proc/speakup"
> > > s
> > >
> > > The first of these two defines an alias which I call s. The second calls the alias. This is from my .bash_profile.
> > >
> > > Thereafter, if my settings go kerflooee, I just issue another s <ENTER>
> > >
> > > and all is back as it should be.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Janina. But does saving the settings you have changed in /etc/ actually
> > > > make it so your rate is set to whatever you set it to instead of the
> > > > default of 300?
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Your correct. The answer is in the speakup archive.
> > > > >
> > > > > Basically, the best solution seems to be to save the settings to a directory under /etc. My directory is called speakup and I have directories below
> > > > > that for each synth I use. These contain the settings I may wish to change on the fly.
> > > > >
> > > > > Do a search for /etc/speakup in the archive to find the mail on this.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi all. I don't remember if this was talked about before, but in any case
> > > > > > I don't remember what the thread (s) were called. Does anyone know how I
> > > > > > could save any settings that I made to any parameter in /proc/speakup? I
> > > > > > changed the default rate from 300 to 350 fine. However, when I have to
> > > > > > reboot let's say for a kernel recompile like the last time I did it, the
> > > > > > rate was back at 300. Is there any way to save the current settings?
> > > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > >
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