Ken,

Re the problem of hearing all the escape sequences when you are using
Emacpeak to reach a Linux system.

Here's how you'd fix that if you were talking to a UNIX System V system,
which is going to be similar to Linux  (due to their common ancestry).

In Unix system V there's an environment variable TERM that tells
applications what kind of terminal or terminal emulator you have.  The
default these days is for it to be something like a VT100 which accepts
escape sequences. However, if you set the TERM environment variable to the
special value "dumb" it will think it's talking to a terminal that doesn't
understand escape sequences, and it will therefore not send them.

In Unix System V you would set TERM on the command line or in the .profile
file with

TERM="dumb"
export TERM

In Linux you probably do things a bit different.  (Linux users please jump
in).

I hope this helps you with emacspeak at least with the escape sequences.
As for turning off the punctuation, can you turn it off with your
synthesizer settings, outside of emacspeak?

Len

you wrote:

> If you are to telnet into my
>internet server which is part of my home business and important to its
>success.  At valhalla.com 4242 you will find that you hear way to much
>there is no way that I have found to turn off the ANSI colors from coming
>in as escape sequences.  It is also very hard if not impossible to make
>the punctuation work as it should as you are usign the game.  Everyone
>knows we do not talk with punctuation but on this game if people talk to
>you you hear something like
>
>bill says comma ticsingle quote how is it going question single quote
>
>This is bad and I have found no way of turnning it off in the telnet
>clinet or the rmoo client which I have not found a way to turn off the
>escape sequences in.

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Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering
Temple University

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