I tried the following from the terminal echo \\005v4 >/proc/speakup/speakout/direct and it lowered the volume as it should. In Perl you may need some more escapes, but that's another issue. "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com> writes: > Yes, I was using echo commands. I thought the backslash was the escape > code needed; didn't know another one was needed. I just went over and > tried it with \\x05... and it does seem to work as advertised. However, > \\005 did not. Perhaps I'm missing something when it comes to escaping > values with the bash shell. The speakout has some neat features and I > think it will be fun to write some perl scripts or something to use these > features. It is a kind of take back to the DOS days when we could echo > whatever we wanted to the synthesiser. > > Sorry for the false alarm, Jim and Kirt. > > > On 30 Mar 2001, John Covici wrote: > > > If you are using echo statements, don't forget to double the back > > slahs because its necessary for the shell to see a backslash. > > > > "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com> writes: > > > > > I just installed the latest CVS version of speakup using the 2.2.18 kernel > > > and I find that the control-E character does not get escaped when sending > > > it to /proc/speakup/speakout/direct. When I use \005 in front of a > > > command, I hear "005" followed by the command. I get similar results when > > > trying ^E and such. Isn't this supposed to work? > > > > > > Let me know if I missed something. > > > > > > P.S. I know I'm running the latest version since I can get tone J to take > > > now. That didn't work with speakup-0.10A production version. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
