Sorry, This simple thing has sure caused more than its share of controversy -- smile. Here is what I wrote up the other day. --- I went to www.linux-speakup.org and followed links to the Debian disks and downloaded everything I could think of that might be useful including the linux-speakout.bin and and rescue-speakout.bin files. The following are lists of files and directories as I have set them up and copied them from linux-speakup.org I run windows 98 second edition but I have set it up to boot in DOS. I am at an MSDOS prompt at the C:\ directory and I am using a program I wrote myself called FILES. The N option shows normal files only and the O option shows directories only. Commands I enter begin with greater than symbols only to identify them as entered lines. You will also see ~1 (tilde 1)in these lists. This is because my program is not smart enough to get the windows long file names. Also please note that my careless use of upper and lower case comes from working too long in DOS -- grin. The files with the ~1 are the ones for the speakout synthesizer. LINUX is a copy of LINUX-~1.BIN RESCUE.BIN is a copy of RESCUE~1.BIN I copied them rather than renaming them to preserve the original download files especially since I had originally planned to download the ones for the braille 'n speak as well. The install.bat file runs loadlin.exe and as I understand it, should come up speaking. The system hangs and needs to be turned off and back on. The machine is a Compaq Presario. I don't know how to spell Presario -- I hope that doesn't matter -- grin. I do not know the exact model number but I just got it about 8 months ago. It has a 20 gig hard drive, 128 meg of memory, and runs at 600 MHZ. >FILES DEBIAN/N BASE2_2.TGZ DRIVERS.TGZ INSTALL.BAT LINUX-~1.BIN LINUX >FILES DEBIAN/O DOSUTILS IMAGES-1.44 DOC >FILES DEBIAN\DOSUTILS/N LOADLIN.EXE RAWRITE2.EXE >FILES DEBIAN\IMAGES-1.44/N ROOT.BIN RESCUE~1.BIN RESCUE.BIN >FILES DEBIAN\DOC/N INSTAL~1.PDF I hope that something in this helps. Thanks again for everything. -- Original Message ----- From: "John Covici" <covici at ccs.covici.com> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 8:26 PM Subject: Re: first attempt failed > Your list was lost in transmission, don't send it as an attachment, > send it as text. > > -- > John Covici > covici at ccs.covici.com > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >