Larry and all,
The terminal is in a way equivelent to the telnet or even better I
guess the app in windows that allows you to access a unix/lynux
shell. It may even be called terminal, but I don't remember and
can't look right now. Anyway, the beauty of terminal on the mac is
that it gives you access to everything on your mac plus any remote
device which can be accessed via command line. How accessible it is
with VO, varies by what you wish to do and by what's on the other end
of the session.
Congratulations on your purchase!
--
Jonnie Apple Seed
With his:
Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
On Dec 13, 2005, at 8:38 PM, LARRY WANGER wrote:
Hi,
Can someone clarify what terminal is for me? I know, probably a dumb
question.
By the way, my Mac arrives tomorrow!!!!!
Check out my blog at http://lsw999.blogspot.com/
Larry Wanger
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Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 1:43 PM
Subject: dot files and TextEdit from terminal [was Re: dot files and
the gui:]
David,
You can access TextEdit (and other Mac applications) directly from
terminal
with the "open -a" command syntax. For the case you describe of
wanting to
edit a dot file (such as .profile) that is normally hidden, type:
open -a TextEdit .profile
and the file will open in TextEdit.
On Saturday, December 10, 2005, at 03:33AM, David Poehlman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
When I open my home folder through the gui, , the . (dot) files are
not visible. I can view them in windows and through terminal . . .
I've got a .profile that's dot fprofile in my
home folder and I can see it from my windows box but not when I open
my home folder /users/davidpoehlman on my desktop.
This [accessing dot files through gui]
would be quite facilitative as I could use text edit to do
editing when necessary instead of going into terminal, renaming the
file and then editing it and renaming it or going through the network
on the windows boxes.
This also works for other apps (e.g. open -a Preview, etc.)
You should also be able to drag and drop the file from your terminal
window into TextEdit (under Tiger) in the dock and have the
application
open up according to this MacWorld article:
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2005/11/textdrag/index.php
Hope this helps.
Esther
