From the author -

Help! I want to try this program but what's all this stuff about cd, sh, commands and terminals? How does your everyday Joe go from having the file on my desktop to making the thing run?

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Saturday, May 31 2003 @ 05:56 PM PDT

From the author - emonneret

Hi !

Sorry for the time, but I hadn't seen your hidden message on the message board. You should have mailed me directly...

For basic suff :
- MacOsX is a graphical interface, where you launch programs and interact with them with your mouse. But, it is also possible to open a command console where you launch programs by typing text commands with your keyboard.
- As I havn't any Mac to try this, I'm not sure of the way to open such a command console, but you should find it quite easily (?)
- when you open it, all actions that you will ask will be though "relative to a current place on your disk". Then, the "cd" command will enable you to change this place to go to an other directory. "mkdir" command will enable you to create a new directory on your disk, ...

If you find the above explanations sufficient to understand the main principle, I think that the help page I gave you will be more clear :
http://anabuilder.free.fr/OsXHelp.html
It it is not the case, mail me..

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Tuesday, June 10 2003 @ 12:00 AM PDT