Greg - What you did works fine on my system... How large was the excerpt you were attempting to cut and paste? I wonder if there is a size limit problem Ch;uck On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Hi all, > > Maybe I'm doing something wrong, or maybe this is a serious bug. > I had displayed a short file using cat onto a console. > I moved my speakup cursor to where I wanted to start marking from on the screen, and hit numpad-/ and speakup said mark. > Then I moved my speakup cursor to the end of the text that I wanted to cut, and hit > numpad-/ again. Speakup didn't say a thing, and the system just froze right > there and then. > I couldn't access other consoles, and I couldn't even do the 3 finger solute, I had to go for the reset switch. > This isn't random, because I've done the same exact thing twice. > Does anyone have any ideas, or what am I doing wrong? > Greg > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.