I have been trying to get either my 250MB zip drive to work with zipspeak, or my 200MB removable drive. Below is a line which when run in a batch file seems to get it running on the removable D drive, but it does not speak. And I am afraid that the "vmlinuz" may format my main harddrive. Also, how do I exit from this without doing control+alt+delete? and on the line that is not remmed out; Don't I have to tell it where to find the dectalk? like com1? actually, I'll just put all the lines below, as it is a short file. If anyone cares to, you may just edit the following and return it, and thanks! I put a * at the beginning of each line as it wrapped in the e-mail, but not really in the batch file... *@echo off *d: *rem d:\linux\loadlin d:\linux\vmlinuz dectlk root=/dev/hdb2 rw *d:\linux\loadlin d:\linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb rw speakup_synth=dectlk Sincerely, O. Glenn Ervin-- (Lenny) N0YJV Northeast Nebraska gervin at kdsi.net or My Work e-mail: gervin at ncbvi.state.ne.us