On Wed, 16 May 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote: > If one wants to be able to use speakup at all on a system with no > serial ports and no possibility for adding in a speech board, then > that is a risk one will have to take ultimately. While this is far from ideal, this isn't as bad as it may first sound. Consider that most people don't know a thing about the boot process anyway. And that in the evil empire's os, this is always the case. The nice day will be when a hardware device that plugs into the VGA port can do the screen reading. Then everything will be usable without limitations that OS reliant methods subject. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it.