Okay, changing DTK_PROGRAM=espeak produced identical results to DTK_PROGRAM=eflite which is process no speaker running as the final message in emacspeak. Apparently both servers need -Ltcl8.4. This is good to know since now I get some disk space back. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>