Quite some months ago Bill Acker suggested I login as an ssh localhost on each console where I would want to cut-and-paste. Well, actually unless there were a way for this anoyance to just ruin 1 tty instead of freeze an entire machine? I also suppose having a script on bootup log us in a localhost. This bug just comes so suddenly, no warning--and-best as we can tell all activity stops. I realize-and-appreciate that we have an active community, many who are knowledgeable, ETC. But it almost seems Speakup may join YASR as having gotten at a certain level-and-thats it. I've been on this list since 2003, but now for `quite some time I still cannot move up past 2.632 as I would have no DecTalk speech. I think John Heim wrote a patch to fix this, but I have no idea what steps will install? And lastly, still about the DecTalk, if we can ever produce a log showing commands which Speakup is sending, James says he can assist. Thanks so much in advance Hart