Hi, As I suspected, the [:vs] command made no difference. I'm sure it works on the DEC PC, but not the Express. Probably something that should be fixed with my patch is that it still lets you adjust the volume up and down, but it doesn't actually do anything. In other words, I can set the volume to whatever number and it will happily tell me that it has changed even though it doesn't actually do anything. I'm sure that will be a source of confusion later. This is my first attempt at modifying anything other than BASIC for public consumption, so I had no idea how to disable the volume announcement messages. On 9/28/2009 4:53 AM, Chris Brannon wrote: > According to the manual, it does not have a way to adjust the volume >> with software. >> > How about the command [:vs DD ]? Does that change the volume on your > unit? > (DD is a number). >