Another thing I forgot to mention in my post. I'm running a doubletalk lt on my com1 port. Being that I've never tried any os not produced by ms, I'm not sure how to start ZipSpeak with the doubletalk lt. I checked the readme.1st and the zipspeak.txt files in the same ftp folder as the zipspeak.zip file, and I gathered that I had to download the lt's boot disk image and create a boot floppy with that image file decoder (the file's name escapes me). Is this correct, or is there a shorter way for a linux novice to start the lt? tia, and merry Christmas. Jason Symes