I aggree with you in a general way, but wonder whether you'd also agree that one should, when possible, stick to standard procedures on one's distro. In other words, when on Debian, install a .deb if you can, and when on Fedora, use an rpm if you can, etc., etc. Chuck Hallenbeck writes: > David, > > I presently have software speech running on my Slackware 10.0 distro, > using version 0.5rc3 of speech-dispatcher, and would be happy to share > my setup with you or help in any other way with the howto. It would be a > valuable contribution to make such a document available, particularly if > it were not specific to any one distro. > > Chuck > > > -- > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (75% of Full) > Home page at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > Speakfreely address 24.105.197.112:2074 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040