Speech Server --Emacspeak 18 And Later

["T. V. Raman" <raman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

yes, there are several places -- including the instructions in
the Makefile as well as the info documentation that should be
changed. If someone tracks down all the places where these
changes belong I'll do it over time.


>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
    Tim> Aha! I'd put money on the problem being the script is
    Tim> not executable - I know it will be something simple and
    Tim> the script not being executable would explain
    Tim> everything, including why it works when run with an
    Tim> explicit tcl call.
    Tim> 
    Tim> Raman, it would probably be worth changing the text in
    Tim> the Makefile which describes how to test the server is
    Tim> working by explicitly calling it outside of emacs to
    Tim> emphasise you need to have it executable.
    Tim> 
    Tim> Tim
    Tim> 
    Tim> 
    Tim> T. V. Raman writes:
    >> This may or may not help clarify the SUSE mystery, as well
    >> as the Accent-SA server:
    >> 
    >> Upto Emacspeak 18, emacspeak used two environment
    >> variables -- DTK_TCL and DTK_PROGRAM, DTK_TCL named the
    >> tcl interpreter and DTK_PROGRAM the server script.
    >> 
    >> The speech server got launched as <DTK_TCL> <DTK_PROGRAM>
    >> e.g.  tcl dtk-exp
    >> 
    >> After Emacspeak 18, I got rid of variable DTK_TCL, and the
    >> server gets launched as <DTK_PROGRAM> e.g.  dtk-exp or
    >> outloud
    >> 
    >> For the above to work, the server script needs to be
    >> executable --- notice that this was not needed as long as
    >> emacspeak was launching the server by explicitly launching
    >> tcl with the server script as an argument.
    >> 
    >> By default the server scripts should be getting installed
    >> with execute permissions; it is quite possible that SUSE
    >> failed to do this. I suspect the accent sa script is also
    >> not being made executable by the package that installs it
    >> --- I cant tell because that script is not part of the
    >> base emacspeak package.
    >> 
    >> -- 
    >> Best Regards, --raman
    >> 
    >> 
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