Re: TECH: (-ish) Sound Change Applier programs

On 8.4.2008 Peter Collier wrote:
> I also had great hopes for Geoff's SCA - the
> possibility of dialects is very useful, but this SCA
> doesn't seem to want to work properly when it outputs
> to a text file, although output to the monitor seems
> to work fine (i.e. it seems to ignore rules when
> outputting to file, but not when it ouputs to
> screen!?) Unfortunately of course, I have BJP's
That's an Indian political party, I'm BPJ! ;-)

> problem with screen output (it doesn't display any
> characters beyond the most basic ASCII set) and of
> course it can't be copied/saved to another location...
>
Testing I found you can use standard file redirects to send
monitor output to a file, e.g.:

python sc_apply.py -cspanish.sc -llatin.txt >spanish.txt

which shouldn't affect the operation of the program,
although iyt might hang for other reasons.

/BP

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