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When ever I click on Terminal and the shell appears, sometimes, I need to click on Terminal and leave the old Terminal minimized while needing to invoke a new Terminal instance... What happens is that it just maximizes the original Terminal that I launched... How can I run multiple instances...

Hello, I once used a (built-in) terminal command to figure out what version of OS X was installed. It's output included something akin to the "Version 10.3.7" that I get from "About This Mac" from the Apple menu rather than this, which I get from uname -a Darwin myob.local 7.7.0 Darwin...

I regularly connect my Mac to my Windows computer using Finder. However, I can't connect to the Windows computers using Terminal, Chicken of the VNC, or Remote Desktop Client - the hostname won't resolve. It works fine if I use the IP address. Problem is, I use DHCP at home and don't want to...

My comp came with 10.2 istalled and when 10.3 came out I upgraded, as such i'm still stuck with tcsh... so my question is how to a switch /usr/bin/login to launch bash as the default shell?

Is there a Lynx browser that will run under OS X? Is there a way to do it in the terminal? Thanks

I have been utilizing TERMINAL on occasion and today opened it to install Urchin, a web stats program. Unfortunately the window did not open correctly. All I get is a tiny little window that I can't expand and the only button on it is the close button, which of course makes it completely...

hello!! is there a command to download stuff from the internet (like http://members.chello.at/eternalstorms/BMI-Calculator.zip) via the terminal? wget doesn't work with me, and yes, i DO have the developer tools installed! thanks in advance oddy

Hi, came this morning and started up Terminal. The window was 20x20 pixels and not rezieable. Non of prefs helps. Tryed Terminal in other accounts and it works just fine. What can I do?

How do I use Mozilla or Safari to specify downloads to a folder (of my liking) in Terminal? Also, if that folder has an executable, how do I create a shortcut for it on my Desktop?

is there a way of creating shortcuts for directories and applications so that when, say you want to open Safari.app you dont have to goto ~/Applications and then open Safari.app. It would be nice if I could open a shell and type safari - and there it pops up! I work with Linux in a big...

What are the device names/codes for both a Firewire drive and a Zip drive when using the terminal? I want to cd to these drives and edit the text files on them using either pico or (shudder) emacs.

This is for people who have brought from the online Apple store. On the order status page, it says Shipped at the top, and Open at the bottom. Recently it was shipped at the bottom. Now its open? Is this an error?

I was trying to set up a webdav server on my powerbook and it's been a long time since i've done unix type stuff. i typed: sudo vim /etc/httpd/httpd.conf and i want to get out ...I know that ctrl-z suspends but how do I exit without saving what i've done? btw, where can i find a...

One thing that bugs me all the time which I haven't been able to figure out is buggy line wrapping in console windows such as Terminal. This is not a Terminal-specific issue, it happens pretty much all over, including XTerm. When I type in a long line, instead of wrapping over to the next...

Hi I'm trying to switch to the cyrus user in the terminal but when I type in login it ask for a password for the cyrus user. It wont except my admin password. I need to change to the cyrus user in the terminal to repair a mail server problem, any ideas anyone? Ta

My Terminal window is screwy. When I open Terminal it comes up as a little tiny window, so small that I can only see the close button and nothing else. I have tried to trash the terminal prefs but am still having the problem. Attached is a picture of my problem. Thanks!

Hi quick question I hope for someone out there, how do you ping a ip range in the terminal? I want to ping 192.168.1.1 to 254 via the terminal. Ta

Hi, Last week I tried to use Forty-two to convert some video files and since then I'm unable to use terminal. :mad: When I click on Terminal application, it opens but a script runs and a message End Process appears and this session cannot be used. I tried to start another session, but...

When I try to input Chinese characters in terninal window of Mac os x. I can not get them, but some strange codes. Can you tell me how to do? Thank you!

Yup, the title says it all. I, for some reason, can't fix disk permissions on my 700Mhz eMac (Mac OS X.2.8) - the options are greyed out in disk utility - so if anyone could tell me how to do it with terminal that would be great! Cheers.