Success!
Thanks to everyone's copious outpouring of hints and advice, I easily fixed both my .profile and my printing problems. 1. I'm using bash and sure enough both the .bash_profile and .bashrc files were sitting right there in the user's home directory waiting to be noticed. I'm guessing that Slackware must not install those files there which is why I didn't have this problem previously. 2. I fixed the problem of the user not being able to print by fixing ownerships and permissions, namely: rwxrwsr_x root lp /usr/spool/lpd/hp4p and changed the five files, /usr/spool/lpd/hp4p/.seq, /errs, /input_filter, /lock and /status to ownership root.lp. (Under Slackware these ownerships were root.daemon). Thanks again for all the help. Warning, I hope everyone realizes now that I will return with many more problems now that these two are fixed. But not now, got to go to work. Chris Beamis
