Jerry Hey wrote:

The latest issue of Mac Addict has an article on how to get below
Aqua (OS X Gui) to a command line interface with the Unix core
(shell?  I am out of my league here).  If you are a Unix user you
probably are familiar with the  interface. It is called "X Windows."
My problem is buying a new computer while  the airplane project is
breaking the bank.   A G-4 with OS X is a powerful tool and sooner or
later I will have one.    Jerry

Not quite right Jerry. I run X-Windows on Linux. Perhaps one
simple way of describing X-Windows is; it is a graphics
server for GUI programs. 

The command line in UNIX & Linux is called a "shell". When I am working on
this newsletter I use both GUI programs (Netscape, XV and Paint)
and shell commands. Shell commands are better for some things 
than a GUI could ever be. The same thing can be said
for GUI's about shell commands.

X Windows gives me four 12xx by 10xx virtual screens to
work with with. There is a little icon on the bottom of the
screen to allow you to select, with a mouse, which screen you 
are working with.

Something half way between a GUI and a shell are programs
like XTree Gold or Norton Commander for DOS or Windows. 
It is a quicker way of running shell commands with out 
memorizing them all. You kind of select the one you want to run.
The same thing can be had for Linux and it is called YTree. 
One of my four virtual screens always has YTree running.

Paul Lamar
 
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