Hi all, I tried setting the suid bit to on for dosemu with the same results. After that, I looked at dosemu.users which i'm attaching for varification. Still same results. I then ran a program similar to msd.exe, and it says all the ports I set up in dosemu.conf are visible. However, none of the programs I run under dosemu, can communicate with my braille 'n speak. I know that the link between my bns and pc is fine, because when I run thoes programs from a windows boot disk, they communicate with the bns just fine. Also, it's not speakup's fault, as my synth is doubletalk pc. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks for all the help so far. All of you (especially Jean) are grate. Greg -------------- next part -------------- # This is a sample /etc/dosemu.users file # Here you can restrict access to dosemu # # However, THIS ONE DOES ALLOW ALL WEIRD THINGS !!! # For a more secure one look at ./etc/dosemu.users.secure # # Format: # # [ <login> | all ] [ confvar [ confvar [ ... ] ] ] # # <login> the login name of a user # confvar under this name a configuration variable is set which # can be checked via 'ifdef' in /etc/dosemu.conf # Variables starting with 'c_' define class permission # # For more details look at ./doc/README.txt default_lib_dir= ~/dosemu/conf log_level= 0 root c_all all c_all romualt c_all