Hi: You're almost certainly not going to get satisfactory operation from this type of setup. For a screen reader to work efficiently, it needs direct access to the synth it's controling. This is why you can't get speakup to shut up - it can't tell your dec pc to shut up. I'd suggest using a terminal program on your dos box as that's about as good as you'll be able to do until you get a supported synth or yours becomes supported. I accessed my machine for 10 months this way before I could use speakup. If you want to access multiple processes at once, you can use the screen program to switch between them. Geoff. -- Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> ICQ number 43634701
