Initializing speakup (or reinitializing it) is so simple from a shell prompt that it probably is not worth making it a speakup builtin feature. With a little preparation first, which I will explain in a moment, it can be done with a command like this (the "-R" is upper case): cp -R /etc/speakup /proc You could further simplify that command by creating a very short script or even using an alias. The preparation involves first creating an appropriate /etc/speakup directory that can just be copied wholesale into /proc/speakup, but that only needs to be done once. Here is how I did it: First, issue the following command: cp -R /proc/speakup /etc Now you have an exact copy under /etc/speakup of what started out in /proc/speakup, but there is more to do. The problem is that some of the "files" under /proc/speakup are read-only and others are read-write, and you have to find out which is which and eliminate the read-only elements under /etc/speakup. Once you do that, the command I gave earlier is ready to go. I have included the initialization command in my rc.local file and also in /etc/profile. This may sound redundant, but there have been times when putting it only in rc.local has failed to work because the synth was busy speaking bootup messages when the command was executed. The repetition in /etc/profile is insurance, and it also lets me reinitialize the synth each time I log into a new account, or reenter once I have been using. Chuck *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>* Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waning Crescent (4% of Full)
