In article <20060415175217.GA1314 at taylor.homelinux.net>, Lorenzo Taylor <lorenzo at taylor.homelinux.net> wrote: > speak tzdata > and got the same result and was able to read the error message > "floating point exception" which appears to be generated by the > shell. Thanks. I like repeatable faults :-) It's a divide-by-zero because a pitch value hadn't been set for the "z", which is neither preceded by nor immediately followed by a vowel. Fixed for the next version.