Hi: Brent, rather than have speakup loaded on multiple machines that you may have to touch from time to time, wouldn't it be easier to have one machine running linux and speakup and telnet or SSH to the various boxes as necessary in order to administer them? You'd have to do this anyway if they were'nt running linux. Geoff. -- Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> ICQ number 43634701