Hello, I have now the luck to have a program to have Canoscan N650U run in Linux bur it is rudimentary (though working perfectly) and it has to be operated in console mode. Thus I made a Bash script to enter the variable and have the program run. I work with a xterm console because I use Gimp too thus I need to work in X. Problem with global variable. Impossiblee to export a variable and to recover it after a reboot (I would like to save the last scanned file). Does anybody know how to export and create a global variable in a xterm environment (!!!! if I export a variable with export LASTFILE in console mode thus not in X, impossible to recover it in X thus the global variables are saved in another config file in X but which one?). Somebody told of /home/user/.bash_profile but it does not exist in SuSE-7.3. Which file to use to define a global variable in a Bash shell. -- Alain Barthélemy cassandre@gminformatique.com bartydeux@gminformatique.com http://bartydeux.gminformatique.com