Re: [Xastir] rattlesnakes

2007-02-15 Thread Tom Russo
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:59:25AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > Hello everybody! > > Again, I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has been so > kind to let me think I know what I am doing! You guys rock! > >

Re: [Xastir] rattlesnakes

2007-02-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > You can test it manually this way: > > telnet localhost 1314 > > (SayText "Hello") > (SayText "This is kind of cool") > > Usually it's something like ESC-] to get back to command-mode for > telnet and then type "quit" to exit. I should have jus

Re: [Xastir] rattlesnakes

2007-02-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Rick Green wrote: > What's the full filename of the shapefiles you downloaded? If it's *.tgz > or *.tar.gz, then you can `tar -xzvf will do it. Except "tar" is one of those "weird" Unix programs that doesn't require the dash. On many modern systems "ps" is another one o

Re: [Xastir] rattlesnakes

2007-02-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Peter Maxfield wrote: > Anyway, I have xastir running well under vmplayer. I am still not sure how > to stop everything. Sometimes I think I shutdown correctly, but xastir ends > up already running in the background when I restart. File->Exit is the correct way to exit the

Re: [Xastir] rattlesnakes

2007-02-15 Thread Rick Green
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Peter Maxfield wrote: Speaking of WX logs: I downloaded the NWS shapefiles to the vmplayer desktop. However, I forgot to (read : don't know how )do it as root. I don't know the command to extract on the command line or I hope I could just sudo extract(?) filename locatio

Re: [Xastir] rattlesnakes

2007-02-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Rick Green wrote: > > sh: play: not found > > >'play' is a utility used to play pre-recorded sound files. It's not > used for festival, which is a text-to-speech synthesizer. On my Kubuntu > system, it's part of the 'sox' package, so `sudo apt-get install sox` will > tak

Re: [Xastir] rattlesnakes

2007-02-15 Thread Rick Green
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Peter Maxfield wrote: command before I start xastir. However, when I enable the voice, all I get are rattlesnake noises, no speech or voice. Checking in the terminal window I see a possible problem: When xastir starts and just after the message that says done with wx aler

[Xastir] rattlesnakes

2007-02-15 Thread Peter Maxfield
Hello everybody! Again, I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has been so kind to let me think I know what I am doing! You guys rock! Anyway, I have xastir running well under vmplayer. I am still not sure how to stop everything. Sometimes I think I shutdown correctly, but x