So far as I know, the speech enabling of both dismal and w3 and probably other emacspeak apps was only done for redhat. I tried installing on slackware 8.0 with current version of emacspeak and current version of emacs and everything just blew up with errors all over the place. I think rpm on slackware is there mostly for an error generator though. -- Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net>