Sorry for the late reply. > I am working on the Freespeech install which requires You just need the Overflow part of Freespeech. A good place to start reading is the INSTALL file in the Piper parent directory. > automake ,aclocal ,autoconf, libtool, make (GNU), cvs > doc++ , and m4 > > I've got most of them installed though I cannot get Overflow > configured . I keep getting errors when I try to configure it. Can you send us those error messages? > also I'm still not sure I have the omni / omnipy installed correctly > nor do I know exactly how the 4D stuff should talk to the OMNI stuff > with regard to setting port numbers , environment variables ,etc. I'll send what I have set for those variables. > Each > package has its own documentation which seems to be more general than piper > which > is no surprise though its also not much help. Is there a piper "glue" > document which provides general instructions on how the major service > components should talk to each other and what permissions the should > run under? I'll defer to Jarl or JM for this. > I want to automate the stop/start sequence of this as > much as possible. Could you see if such info exists ? Thanks, I'm not sure what you mean by "automate the stop/start sequence". What are you trying to start/stop? Cheers. Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro jeff at bioinformatics.org Director, Bioinformatics.Org http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." -- Benjamin Franklin --