Hi Gena: There's probably ispell and spell packages for slackware 7.1, anyone know? As far as the double folders are concerned, you're suffering from an afliction most new speakup users suffer from initially, that being that you're not yet used to speakup's lack of proper cursor tracking. This is being worked on. In the meantime, you'll have to get used to hitting the current line key (numpad 8) to figure out where you are. This might sound tedious, and I guess it is, but you'll get used to it, believe me. The keypad enter key will always route the reading cursor to the actual system cursor if you ever get lost, a command I probably use to excess ... but at least I don't get lost. Geoff.