Try using the slackware 8.1 disk set, that works better and is the newest version. Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm sick of Winblows! ----- Original Message ----- From: bob To: Speakup at braille.uwo.ca Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 10:11 AM Subject: bad root disk Hello from brookston mn my name is bob. when I load the color.gz slackware root disk I get the the error message inputerror can not open shaired file when this happens all speech stops I had to get a sighted frend to read the screen to find this message. I got the rootdisk from http://www.linux-speakup.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/attachments/20020921/4478949c/attachment.html>