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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Thanks mrmikel. I went to the site but I'm not comfortable working in the terminal yet. (I went there once, with lousy instructions on how to use it, and had a heck of a time getting out of it.) It's like Harry was saying, I need to learn more about Linux. Once familiar, it'll probably seem easy. Right now, it seems uber complicated. Appreciate your help. Thank you.
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You get out or CANCEL a terminal program in the terminal the same way as on Windows.
Ctrl-C to cancel (at the next breaking point)
type
exit to close the window
You can copy the
full Calibre (or any other) command line from the browser and
Paste it into the terminal, then press enter (or edit)
Only some of the Linux commands are different. But many of the basic
console interface rules are the same.
Win: dir /w > foo.lst
Lin: ls -l > foo.lst
Unix existed
BEFORE DOS and Windows.
M$ stole (borrowed?) heavily from it and CPM (also before MSDOS)
The 'man' pages were (and still are) my friend:
man -k <keyword>
IMHO M$ misnamed their version of the tool to 'Help'
what does that mean ? or Why doesn't IT WORK?
still applies
man just does not imply it will
help 