D Stubbs wrote:
> OK, I have never opened Terminal App, interesting, it opened with a page 
> titled
> Terminal-Bash-80x24
> 
> On this page it has 3 lines of text, but the cursor is not active on 
> this page to enter anything,
> so I looked under Files menu and see something called New Shell and New 
> Command, are one of these where I enter ?          cd "/Volumes/<rest of 
> the name>"   
> The folder is within my boot OS10.3.9 partition, and looking at its 
> contents I see it has iTunes and iPhoto material from last year I would 
> like to re-capture - rather than just trash
> thanks  much, Del

You don't get the flashing vertical line cursor because you are not 
entering text as in a text editor.  You get a block cursor for typing in 
commands.  The cursor comes from old style terminals.


Just go ahead and type in the commands, the characters will appear and 
the cursor will advance.


-- 
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting

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