Chuck, The "duplicate backslashes" bug (and others) have been fixed in the CVS version of Speakup. Sounds like it's time for an upgrade. Jim On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 10:16:32AM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > ... 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.