Fanoush writes: The helpful ones can simply go away.[/QUOTE]

I'd like to appologize for the rant aspect of my original post. But I want to thank you guys for taking seriously a subject that seems to be of interest and concern for many of us for different reasons. I obviously can't and don't speak for the group, but those that have responded to this post really should be appreciated for the help you provide dayly to folks. I particularly recall both Milhouse and Fanoush spending time trying to help me. So, please, if you want to go away, OK, but we like/ need your help if you care to offer it.

I easily see your point of view about feeling frustrated that people seem to just ask questions over and over again. I would like to thank Milhouse for laying out a constructive outline of options as responses to this problem. As I said before, I don't have the answers, but at some point you will get tired of answering and we will be timid to ask perhaps. I think maybe part of the problem here is the knowledge gap between us. This can be a problem I think for both parties. I may do a search to look for the answer to my question, I have read the posts. But because I don't have some of the background knowledge or vocabulary , I simply don't understand enough of the details of the solution the writer has offered to be able to make the last link in my head or maybe several things appear to me to be missing in the solution offered. Now I'm not saying that you are offering incomplete solutions. It's probably more that, given your knowledge , you may leave out some details that you take for granted as being part of the proceedure. And yah, I get that to fill in all those details could take more time than you are willing to put into it-quite understandable. Anyway, so I put a question together that I hope will elicit the answer I need. To you it just looks like I have just asked a question that someone else has already asked because it really is the same question in some ways-especially from your more educated point of view. To me it may seem less so because I need to understand it in a particular way.
This has been particularly so for me in situations that may require the use of Osso-xterm . You may give me the code to type in, but I don't even know how to activate that code.
So, obviously I would benefit greatly from simply becoming more educated about Linux. On the other hand, although greatly appreciated, I can totally understand action of simply not answering the same question again. I just think that would be preferable to being told once again to search out the answer.

NS