Apologies if there's someplace to find this information on the web; I
didn't see it if it is --

I'm working on my linux machine right now, and wanted to play with
Shoes, which I've only used on the mac...

I download the latest Linux shoes build and I get this wonderful
shell-script thingy which self-extracts and runs Shoes scripts and then
deletes the self-extracted bits, but I'm assuming that's not the optimal
way to use it -- extracting every time.  Also I'm not sure how to get to
the console or the manual in that environment, not having my Mac menus
anymore.

I see, fooling around with it, that I can extract the whole thing to a
directory... OK... and then I can put a link to the "shoes" executable
in a directory in my PATH...  OK, I've got that.

And *that* shoes executable gives me the manual with --manual.

OK, I guess I answered my own questions except how to get the pretty
Shoes console back. :)

Where's the console in Linux?

And I'm used to having one shoes Application running, which I can use to
open up a copy of the manual and run my scripts and open new scripts and
stuff... but it looks like in Linux the thing to do is run one instance
of Shoes containing the manual, and generally run one instance per
script?  Cause were not on a Mac now, so there's not this persistent
Application which appears in the Dock and is represented by a bare main
menu.nib?

mentally adjusting here...

Thanks!


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