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Skriven 2009-01-05 10:29:04 av Jeff Guerdat (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Jean Parrot
Ärende: Re: problems with TB anyone?
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Jean Parrot wrote:

>  In a secret email, Alan gave me all the required steps to get Earth running
in
> U'u and now it is. A bit slow for this system that runs on an Athlon 950 CPU
> but it runs.

Kewl.

>  I had a bit of a small problem in the space required or not in the Terminal
> after the cd Desktop ./ or Desktop./. I fudged it and it runs.

A space, whether in DOS/Windows or *nix, is always a delimiter.  That 
is, it denotes the end of one thing and the start of another.  That's 
why you have to use quotes ("") to surround a file or path name that has 
embedded spaces, to "hold it together".  Also, like Windows, "." means 
the current directory and ".." means the parent directory (the one from 
whence the current directory is linked).  MS copied others' on this 
while making the backslash the directory delimiter as opposed ot many 
others which used the forward slash.

So, "cd Desktop" would be the command line in the terminal to move to 
the Desktop directory from your default/home directory.  You would then 
use the "./" to precede the command you're trying to run to ensure that 
it uses the one found in the current directory rather than one found 
elsewhere from the search of your PATH settings.  Same thing with 
Windows except that MS always looks in the current directory before 
searching the PATH, a possible security issue since you could be 
unknowingly executing a Trojan Horse that happens to reside in your 
current directory.

Details, details...

-- 
Jeff Guerdat

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