Yes very much thanks, into LINUX at last. I have been using DOS
actually right up until the very day I switched to my Mac as I had
Take Command, (a very powerful DOS Command interpreter substitute) on
my windows system.
On 07/06/2006, at 8:34 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
Hi Dane,
First, thee whole of the mac os is based on a flavor of unix called
darwin. If you've ever had experience with the dos environment
within windows, especially that which was available before xp came
along, even though the xp one is pretty powerfull, you can think of
terminal as the dos prompt on steroids. In terminal, you can boss
your system around in ways not easily available through the gui and
you can wreck it too since you have all the raw power of darwin at
your disposal.
Here are a couple of things to get you started.
Type help and press return and read the output. There are some
helpful instructions there. Type help followed by any of the listed
commands to get help on that command.
Type ls to get a list of files and folders in your home directory/
folder.
type mail just for fun. The environment of terminal is called a
shell. There are many flavors of shell. This one is a variant of
something called bash which I believe stands for born again shell.
There is also one called born and several others. Before there was
windows and some still exist, the shell was the comon way of
connecting to the internet although few of us had this power on our
local systems. Many people actually now use the shell all the time
directly from their systems to the internet.
I hope this helps.
On Jun 7, 2006, at 1:18 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Hi!
I've just noticed the Terminal utility of OS10, will this allow me to
run LINUX software of any description? I've always wanted to get into
LINUX.
Dane Trethowan
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