--- apps/app_festival.c.old     2003-12-29 19:45:20.000000000 +0000
+++ apps/app_festival.c 2003-12-30 00:05:23.000000000 +0000
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@
        }
        readcache=0;
        writecache=0;
-       if (strlen(cachedir)+strlen(MD5Hex)+1<=MAXFESTLEN && (usecache==1)) {
+       if (strlen(cachedir)+strlen(MD5Hex)+1<=MAXFESTLEN && (usecache==-1)) {
                sprintf(cachefile,"%s/%s",cachedir,MD5Hex);
                fdesc=open(cachefile,O_RDWR);
                if (fdesc==-1) {