There are a lot of good screen readers for Linux around, but none seem to fit exactly what I am looking for such as the ability to drive one of the old Echo external synthesizers of which I have access to 3 at work and home. Is there any good place to start reading to figure out what I need to do to build the kind of console I want? Having written a small screen reader under DOS, I know you need to be able to look at key press scan codes and intercept data in standard output. If you can do that, you can really make lots of neat stuff happen. In UNIX, it should actually be easier to do these things since the functions available seem to be much more robust. Any ideas are appreciated. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list