It didn't go through it's proper testing? Well, could you perhaps have that proper testing take place? I would rather that happened before I touch it. As I have stated in a previous post, the day Mr. Tayler runs Speakup and Speechd-up without speechd-up being chrashed by the C interface library, I will kindly try it. But the effort it takes to crash speechd-up (to have our suspect C library) crash spechd-up is just too little. I just booted into my Linux OS on this dual-boot box only to have speech-crash within 3 seconds of moving around the screen. It's been an upsetting issue for several months now, practically rendering my Linux box useless. Please keep me updated, either on or off list by sending an email to: keithint38 at CommSpeed.net I am sitting on the edge of my chair waiting for the day that speech-dispatcher 0.62 and speechd-up0.5 are released, or whatever. Just as long as there is a day that speakup is at least useable with speechd-up without having to constantly restart it. Regards, -Keith website: http://www.KeithNet.DynDNS.org