Gregory and all, Thanks for the note about the ability to keep the text of Linux up despite the growing Xwindows. I really do hope that continues since I am a bit gun shy after seeing Microsoft slowly killing DOS. As I understand it, you can't boot in DOS anymore and I am not even sure the apps will work in the new Xp. More tragic in the DOS world is the cintinuing loss of speech products for the environment where older speech hardware can't even be installed. So we truly have to not only see Linux for what it is now, but we must also make sure it remains a place for blind folks to still do our thing with an operating system as powerful as it is. -- charlie Crawford. -- charlie Crawford.