I have been trying out different versions of linux, so far all them have a problem with the print command, just don't work, and ubuntu has a big problem I can't even get Sesame  to execute at all.Anybody have any experience with these problems or ideas. Cow I think you are the only one I know who I'd consider a expert on linux, what dist do you think is the best to use for Sesame, I'm leaning toward Xandros-Deluxe edition.
Thanks all that respond.
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While I have no personal experience with Ubuntu, at least one customer I met at one of Erika's classes was running Sesame on Ubuntu. I don't know which version. We have also heard from customers on Mandrake.

Did you try both the OLib and the NLib versions of Sesame on Ubuntu?

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Yes I tryed both of them the only thing I can figure is I didn't install them as root, or maybe some permissions are wrong.
I may end up with mandivia other then the print problem everything worked best in it.

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When you try to print from the command line, using either "lp" or "lpr" what happens?

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What would be the command to launch from the command line.
And where would you set the environment variable.

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To start a command line on most Linux desktops, look for an icon marked "Terminal" or "Terminal Window" or "Console". That will start a command line window, with a command prompt, etc...

Typically sesame should be installed in "/usr/local", to invoke from there you would use:

/usr/local/Sesame/Program/NCLib/sesame
 

Of course, you can (and should) add Sesame to your command path, so you can just type "sesame".

How you set an environment variable depends on the command shell you are using. Page 462-464 covers this. In any case you would invoke a command line window, often called a "terminal window" on Unix. That will provide you with a command line. After you have set the variables the way you want them, you will want to edit the command shell startup file that gets invoked when you log in to include the variables and path settings you want. This file will be called .cshrc, .profile, or .bashrc. This will cause the environment variables to get set every time you log in.

Do you know any of the Unix command line commands (such as "ls", "cp", "rm", "mv", etc...)?

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Well, maybe. A lot of Linux can be run from the Desktop with the command line. Using the command line can give you finer control. If you are only learning the command line for Sesame, you won't need to know much. Do you know the command line commands in DOS? There are a number charts on the web that show DOS commands and the Unix equivalent.

Here are a few:
http://www.csupomona.edu/~cs/labs/help_pages/unix-wkshop/cmd-list.htm
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/unixhelp/DOStoUNIX.html
http://www.wordesign.com/unix/coniglio.htm

It is also likely that you have all of the books you will need already installed on your distribution. The first command I teach new Unix users is the "man" command. It is short for "manual". If you type "man" on the command line followed by the name of command, it will show you the manual page for that command:

man ls
 

If you are looking for a command, you can type "man -k" followed by a search term and it will show you a list of all of the commands that include that search term along with a brief description of each.

This example will look up commands that have the term "whatever" in their descriptions:

man -k whatever
 

One of the first command line commands most people learn is "ls" (that is a lower case "L" followed by a lower case "s"). It is like "dir" on DOS. It lists the contents of the current directory.

After that is "cd" - change directory. It is the same as on DOS - but remember that the slashes go the other way ("/" for unix; "\" for DOS).

If you have any specific questions about Unix, I'll do my best to answer them.

Thanks Mark, I downloaded SuSe 9.1 last night and I dropped by my office and installed it, it seems alot better than any of the other dist's I've tried, so I suppose, I will try and use that one, the printer problem I'm having was still there in SuSe, also the problem with the brower so I'll work to figure out these two problems.

1.The printer is being sent a command to print, but between Sesame and cups its getting lost, I'll try your suggestions on Tuesday, the printer is a dot matrix panasonic kxp3626 24-pin and none of the linux dist's have the proper driver I'am having to use a epson LQ-24 driver as suggested by panasonic.It will not print anything from Sesame in the form of lines and boxes only text, but in open office it prints lines and boxes perfect?? The print command that does not work is the "print form to default" command "when clicked turns red for a while nothing never happens". The "print form to default(no background)" prints fine, but text only.

2.The reports not appearing in the brower problem was evident in SuSe also but the web brower was konquer, I installed firefox with "yast" but didnot get a chance to test it before I had to leave. But I could tell that the SuSe dist was by far a very stable version. Again Thanks for all your suggestions !!!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to All !!!