We are talking about something perfomred only once from within rc.local so I cannot believe saving a couple of milliseconds once a day is a very big deal! One advantage of the copy method is that is open ended - it copies whatever files you put in the source directory and does not complain if some are not there - with the echo method you have to have a separate echo statement for each value you want to set. I am sticking with the copy method. Chuck On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Holmes, Steve wrote: > I will probably be sticking to the echo/script method then. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kerry Hoath [mailto:kerry at gotss.eu.org] > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 10:28 AM > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: saving settings > > > Actually copying the files is likely to use up more file handles than > echoing values, > so from a puritanical point of view echo 8 >/proc/speakup/rate will be > faster than > the copy method because there are less fopen and fclose calls. Each time you > fopen a file > you need to create a file handle structure for it. Echo is also > a shell builtin so it is likely to execute fast. > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 06:36:48AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > > <hmmm> that is an interesting idea. What I've been doing is to run a > > shell script that "echos" my desired values into the /proc files.. This > > file copy method sounds like it might be more efficient though. Haven't > > done much of anything with the /proc file system; so much to learn:). > > > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote: > > > > > Hi Raul, > > > > > > Loadspk doesn't work any more. The speech parameters are all > > > controlled from files in /proc/speakup. I created a directory called > > > /etc/speakup and put my settings in that directory. I made a file for > > > rate and put 6 in it and so on. Then, in my rc.local, I put a line that > > > says: > > > cp -R /etc/speakup /proc > > > note the uppercase R. > > > > > > > > > > > > HTH. > > > Bill > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waning Gibbous (55% of Full)
