Am also going to send this info to fonix, but thought i'd also advise the list and see if anybody else had these problems. I downloaded linux_runtime_5.00_intel.tar.gz and placed in in /usr/local/src. This downloaded as an octet steam and I would have thought it would have downloaded as a gzip. As root, I ran tar zxf (filename) and got gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored tar: Child returned status 2 Howeever, if I gunzip it first, I still get the trailing garbage stuff, but then when I do tar I don't get any errors. When I run ./installer, it asks for my serial number. Then I get: Installing libraries Installing dictionaries Installing sample program Installing include files setting up DECtalk.conf ./files.sh: line 37: syntax error: unexpected end of file Indeed, my ./files.sh ends with grep $LIBS /etc/ld.so.conf >/dev/null || { echo $LIBS >>/etc/ld.so.conf; /sbin/ldconfig } and then a blank line. I tried to run say anyway and got errors about the libtts.so and shared objects, etc.; will write this up better for fonix but I think you get the idea. solved that problem by running ldconfig. Last but NOT least, i really am sorry if this is an unbelievably stupid question, but i can't figure out where to find instructions; do i have to go to the website or are they in the package somewhere? Thanks. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."