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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 @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ <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> <section><title>Using Embedded Konsole</title> <para> Along the top of the window is a row of menus and icons. The "Font" menu lets you select the font size that you want the console to use, while the Options @@ -55,25 +55,25 @@ You can edit or hide this menu from <GUIMenu>Options</GUIMenu>&arrow; <section><title>What is a Shell</title> <para> A shell is a program that accepts input from a user, and runs commands. Each "command" in the shell is actually a separate program (unless you are using a 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> <para> To run a program or a command (remember, a command is just another program), you simply type the name of the program and hit "Return" (in Linux, program names do not have a special suffix like they do in windows, in fact the "." |