Well that was high on my list of dumb suggestions! Using Bill's "cp -R" command in reverse creates a bunch of things that cannot be reloaded with the straightforward "cp -R" command. Several of the pseudo-files under /proc/speakup are "read only" such as flush and version to name two. I deleted those from my /etc/speakup directory, then deleted the directory /etc/speakup/litetalk. There were three other files that produced input-output errors when they were copied back into the /proc system - probably due to how the backslashes were handled - caps_start, caps_stop, and punc_all. I deleted those files from my /etc/speakup directory too, and now everything that remains can be both read and written without errors. When I use "cat" to display /proc/speakup/caps_stop it begins with a pair of backslashes, but when I look at the file /etc/speakup/caps_stop there is only a single backslash shown. In that form it produces an input-output error when copied back to the /proc system, and also when the backslash is doubled. Chuck My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waning Gibbous (56% of Full)
