I am glad to know DOS runs on your system, John - that meas there has got to be a way for it run here, so I will pursue that angle. Steve - this flat bed scanner is a very old one which requires a proprietary interface card. The card looks like a printer port, and the connecting cable is a standard printer cable. So a PCI/SCSI card will probably not help. I need a new scanner, and if I do that I will probably just get on board with the Linux development efforts. But it will all have to wait until after the holiday bills come in. Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waning Crescent (12% of Full)