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From: Luke Davis <ldavis@shellworld.net>
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Subject: Re: Configuration Files
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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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