Hello guys, I dont think Paul ever meant to be snarky (not sure what that means exactly) but I can certainly understand if he is confused by some of the answers. I am not very good at going on the command line myself and not sure if I could do even as much as he has in following the advice given to him. I would probably have to need one of you to hold my hand the whole way and more than likely need almost endless corrections to what I was doing wrong. I think that the whole reaction to Paul being negative was when he said something to the effect that he understands how someone can like apple products etc but in his case he could not really afford them. I am in that class of people myself as well. In my experience there are a lot of things which apple (Macs and macbooks etc) do better than either linux or windows. One of them is connecting to printers. In my experience in the Commodore world and Amiga world and to a greater extent in the windows world, printers are the most exasperating thing to connect to in the computer world. It should be a very simple thing such as it is on a Mac, but in windows it is an absolute nightmare and in linux is sometimes almost as bad at times. I hope you knowledgeable guys will continue to help Paul and others like me to grope our way through the linux command line. I run into issues all the time and luckily I have more than one computer to fall back on and use. I would really welcome a learning session which would teach a lot of us some of the basics and if there is something I can do on a Social Security budget it would be nice to hear about it. I am almost totally lost on linux cli and probably could do a lot more if I had some way to learn more with some direct help. I know it is suggested to just go onto the command line and start typing things in. But there can be some severe consequences when you hit return on the keyboard. Too bad I cant sit in on a basic learning session for some kids. OOOPs, they might be too far advanced for me! LOL thanks for reading ------ Original Message ------ Received: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 05:23:26 PM CST From: tclug-list-request at mn-linux.org To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: tclug-list Digest, Vol 111, Issue 19 > Send tclug-list mailing list submissions to > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > tclug-list-request at mn-linux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > tclug-list-owner at mn-linux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of tclug-list digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: A question about printing' (paul g) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 17:21:33 -0600 > From: paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> > To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] A question about printing' > Message-ID: <BAY175-W98D35CD6F7E9A915FA17B998C0 at phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > I am sorry I am frustrated and got overwhelmed. You haven't done anything wrong but try to help. >