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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 @@ -1,27 +1,27 @@ <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 menu lets you select various options. Below this row of menus and icons is a pulldown list with various common commands in it. </para> <section><title>Options Menu</title> <para> The first submenu in the options menu is the "Command List" menu, which lets you edit or hide the command list pulldown. The "Tabs on top" or "Tabs on bottom" (depending on which is currently enabled) allows you to select where the tabs representing multiple terminal sessions are drawn. The "Colors" submenu lets you select from a color scheme, or make your own, and the "Scroll Bar" submenu lets you select where or if the scroll bar is drawn. @@ -43,49 +43,49 @@ The other icons are the same as typing (from left to right) enter, space, tab </para> </section> <section><title>Command List</title> <para> The command list is a pulldown menu with a list of commonly used commands. Selecting one will type the command into the terminal wherever the cursor is. You can edit or hide this menu from <GUIMenu>Options</GUIMenu>&arrow; <GUIMenuItem>Command List.</GUIMenuItem> </para> </section> </section> <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 "." character has no special meaning unless it is at the begining of a filename, in which case it makes the file "hidden"). When you type a program name and hit "Return" the shell looks in a special list of directories called your "path", and if it cannot find it in any of those directories, it stops looking and tells you it could not find them. If you want to run a program that is not in your path, you must specify an absolute or relative path to that program. For instance, to run a program that is in the directory you are currently in, you would type <literal>./program</literal> ("./" is a special directory that is explained below), or to run a program in /home/username/ you would call <literal>/home/username/program</literal>. </para> <para> |