brian Moore wrote: > Hi. no, the instructions when you choose the "remote installation" on > the synthe instruct you to use the mode command from dos > > with the following two lines. > > mode comx 2400,n,8,1,p > then there was another mode command to recirect imput from the com > port to the buffer or something ah yes. I remember this now. The second command is the ctty command which allows you to redirect control of the DOS session to a serial port. Very useful if you don't have a screen reader on a box. Geoff.