I assume this was in response to my query yesterday. Yes, I was
aware of this. It was just the getting started point I was unsure
of . Now I am progressing. But thanks anyway.
On 8 Aug 2006, at 13:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apple tiger is a shell, as is terminal. A shell is the direct
interface by
which we instruct the computer to do something. The real operating
system
is a flavor of unix which does the heavy lifting in the computer.
By using
icons or keying in commands at the terminal prompt we talk to the
operating
system. When we copy a file by dragging and dropping an icon of it
or use
the cp command in terminal we perform the same function of telling the
operating system to make a copy of a file.
The shell is also a way to talk to programs and utilities. There
are many
many programs and utilities which can only be used in terminal
because the
tiger shell does not talk to them. These come with the unix flavor
that is
the apple operating system.
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