Tips and Tricks

Useful tips

Open a command line shell to run these programs.
Alternatively, on the VirtualRDC/SSG (KDE), you can open a command line directly in your file browser by choosing from the menu "Window -> Open Terminal Emulator". This will open a 10-line terminal at the bottom of your file browser into which you can enter all commands.
On VirtualRDC/SSG (Gnome), you can open a command line by going in your file browser to "File ->.; Open In Terminal". This will open a separate terminal window into which you can enter all commands.
Use Kate or Emacs to open the files you need to edit.
Keep a folder window open. Sort by creation date to identify the files that the programs create. Sort by filename to find files mentioned in this document.

Using ZIP and TAR files

Under Linux, command line tools are 'unzip' and 'tar'. Use Winzip under Windows for either format. On a Linux/KDE desktop, you can also right-click to obtain a number of options. You can choose "Actions -> Extract Here" to extract both ZIP and TAR files

unzip usage

To view the contents of a ZIP archive, type

	unzip -v archive.zip

To extract the contents of a ZIP archive, type

	unzip archive.zip

tar: usage

To view the contents of a TAR archive, type

	tar tvf archive.tar

To extract the contents of a TAR archive, type

	tar xvf archive.tar

A TAR archive can also be compressed, in which case it will have either a '.tar.gz' or a '.tgz' extension. To manipulate such a compressed TAR archive, simply add the letter 'z' to each option above, f.i.

	tar tzvf archive.tar.gz

Differences between operating systems

OS	Linux/ia64	Linux/i386	Windows	DOS
Rename file	mv file1 file2	mv file1 file2	(use GUI)	ren file1 file2
Copy file	cp file1 file2	cp file1 file2	(use GUI)	cp file1 file2
Editors	Kate, Emacs, Vi	same plus others	Textpad, Wordpad, others	??
Run programs	./program	./program	(double-click)	./program.exe
Run scripts	./script or ./script.sh	./script or ./script.sh	(double-click)	./script.bat