On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 at 8:02am, I wrote: :DECtalk's 'say' is supposed to take input as stdin, too, but 'echo "Say :something" | say' doesn't do anything :( 'echo "Say something" | say -', however, _does_, so maybe I'm making some progress here! Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman pwiseman@mindspring.com Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later*