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Originally Posted by paola

Thanks Rob - I'm old enogh to have been using dos in the olden days, when yong and enthusiatic and before deciding that life was too short for IT proficiency so at least I am not totally frightened by the prospect!
I am happy to give it a go to - to these look like reasonable places to start?
http://freeengineer.org/learnUNIXin10minutes.html
https://supportweb.cs.bham.ac.uk/doc...scripting.html

They both look to be pretty good; the first as a reference for using the shell and the second as a tutorial for writing scripts. The traditional resource for information on Unix systems is the "man" pages (i.e. manual), but they aren't installed on the PocketBook devices. If you google the command name and 'man' together, you'll likely find a copy of the man page for that command. The pages are pretty technical, but definitive. So, your first link is a great way to find out the name of the command that should be used to do something, and then you can look at the man page if you want to know more about that command.

Bear in mind that poterm doesn't really have a proper terminal, so the more complicated stuff that manipulates the screen (like using an editor) doesn't really work there. But it is fine for quick commands like copying or moving files around, showing file contents,...

It's not for everyone, but having shell access is a great way to see into the "black box" of the ereader. They really are full blown computers.