The 5.0 version should work with emacspeak. It is an upgrade which doesn't sound as good as the 4.6 version, but it doesn't crash on my system. The 4.6 version started crashing when my distro upgraded it's libs beyond the libs expected by 4.6. Kenny On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:57:08PM +0200, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: > Is there a way to get hold of dectalk 4.6? > bought 5.0 from them because I wanted speech in emacspeak. > > kristofferI > Kristoffer Gustafssson > Solsäter Månstadsvägen 3 > 514 53 Månstad > tel: 0325-420 93 > mobil: 070-627 04 07 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: John Heim <jheim@xxxxxxxx> > To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>; <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 5:05 PM > Subject: Re: dectalk installation problem > > > > At 09:37 AM 10/20/2004, Kristoffer Gustafsson you wrote: > > >gzip: stdin: decompression ok trailing garbage ignored. > > > > > >Can you tell me what is wrong? > > >Have fonix made it like this only to steal us poor people on money by > > >selling software that doesn't work? > > > > > > I bought DECtalk 4.6 from them and it works fine. They may have done > > something wrong packaging 5.0 but I doubt they're purposely trying to rip > > you off. > > > > You should contact them. > > > > You might try using the tar command to uncompress the archive. I can't > > imagine why it would help but it can't hurt. You can unpack and uncompress > > at the same time: > > > > > > $ tar -zxvf <filename> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list