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diff --git a/docs/usermanual/embeddedkonsole.sgm b/docs/usermanual/embeddedkonsole.sgm index 838e705..1564408 100644 --- a/docs/usermanual/embeddedkonsole.sgm +++ b/docs/usermanual/embeddedkonsole.sgm @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ <chapter><title>Embedded Konsole</title> <para> -EmbeddedKonsole is Opie's terminal emulator. From here you can do pretty much +EmbeddedKonsole is &opie;'s terminal emulator. From here you can do pretty much anything (since Linux is actually a command line based OS by itself). I will not go into much detail on using the linux command line, as that is covered in many other places (http://www.tldp.org is a good place to start, or read O'Reilly's <citation>Running Linux</citation> for a comprehensive look at Linux for the beginner). I will, however, give a quick overview of using a Linux shell. </para> @@ -59,17 +59,17 @@ A shell is a program that accepts input from a user, and runs commands. Each shell like BusyBox, which makes some of the more common commands part of its own program in order to save space). Shells can actually be very powerful, and many of them allow you to write something called "shell scripts" which are just a sequence of commands, sometimes with some flow control statements, saved to a file and run each time the script is run. For the most part, the average user -does not need to know about any of this, though. If you are running Opie on the +does not need to know about any of this, though. If you are running &opie; on the Familiar distribution, it is advisable to install the bash shell (ipkg install bash) because it offers things like tab completion, use of the backspace key, and a command history, as well as offering a more advanced scripting languauge than most other shells. </para> </section> <section><title>Running Programs</title> |