I asked this before but I got no answer so I am going to try to ask it in a different way and maybe have more luck. When I am at work I want printing to occur to the local printer on my desk. When I am at home and establish a ppp connection to my machine at work I want the default printing to occur to the printer on my desk at home. On one level what I want to do is establish a PRINTER environment variable pointing to my home machine when I am on a ppp connection. Under RH 7.3 I could do this using a test: $REMOTE = "yes" Now that does not work. How can I make this work? -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list