From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 21 04:44:41 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 269BF106566B for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:44:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from qmta02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 075D58FC0A for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:44:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.11]) by qmta02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id ws801e0070EPchoA2skfe7; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:44:39 +0000 Received: from remegius.comcast.net ([67.180.204.190]) by omta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id wske1e00246zqiB8MskeEw; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:44:39 +0000 Message-ID: <4C6F59B5.7090705@comcast.net> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:44:37 -0700 From: Rem P Roberti User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100819 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CyberLeo Kitsana References: <4C6F2AA2.6060005@comcast.net> <20100821054843.ae15204d.freebsd@edvax.de> <4C6F560C.9080700@comcast.net> <4C6F57A4.2030409@cyberleo.net> In-Reply-To: <4C6F57A4.2030409@cyberleo.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Polytropon , FreeBSD Subject: Re: Printing from Thunderbird X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:44:41 -0000 On 08/20/10 21:35, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > On 08/20/2010 11:29 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: >> Ah-ha! In my case I am using the bash shell, and I believe the syntax >> that is needed for the .bashrc is different than what is used in your >> csh.cshrc. Any idea where I can find the appropriate syntax for >> variables stored within .bashrc? > export PRINTER="Photoshop7760" > > bash(1) has extensive documentation; as bash is a superset of the bourne > shell included in base, sh(1) is likewise useful for reference. > Well...I kind of thought that the "export" variable was the correct one to use, and I entered : export PRINTER="Photosmart7760" into both my .bashrc and .bash_profile, but no dice. The printer neither shows up in Thunderbird or Firefox