I temporarily revived my old serial terminal access method when I remembered that a test server we have has 2 serial ports and a floppy drive. That gives me 1 port for the Echo Speech synthecizer and one port for the Linux box. I think MSKermit's VT100 emulator is a true jewel. It uses BIOS video calls which means it is very screen-reader friendly and one does not get any VT100 escape sequences leaking in to the output. The FreeBSD installation disk gives one a full-screen serial console if you can get to it and this at least temporarily fixes the problem I was having. Before, I couldn't make much sense of the output since all the VT100 codes were mixed in with little snatches of text. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list