Well, someone said they would send me a DECTalk express to work on the various bugs like the tick but I've never seen it. I wrote the original driver from a borrowed Express which has long since gone back to the owner a couple of years ago. Unless someone else fixes the problems and sends me the patches or I get another unit to experiment with, these fixes aren't going to happen. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061