Dave Houghton wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > It (terminal) will not allow me to 'Backspace' or 'delete' > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > I think I'm really missing something here. > Mostly you can't. (Actually you can, if you really want to, but it is a little complicated.) That string is your "prompt". The first "dave" is your logon username. "dave-desktop" is the name of the computer. ":~" means you are currently at your $HOME directory, most likely "/home/dave"
You can't delete the prompt, because you didn't type it. You can type a command after that string. Bash, the default command interpreter for Linux, requires "./" ( dot , then forward-slash ) to specify that a command is to be executed from the current directory. So, to execute an executable file that is in the current directory named "latency-test", you would type "./latency-test" right after the prompt, then hit enter. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
