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If you are bored of the plain black and white colour file listings when you type „ls“ in your Terminal, you can actually make the ls command colour the files based on their type (not mime type, but directory, symlink, etc) and extension. If you add the switch -C or –color to the ls command […]

Tired of having the words „Welcome to the Beos Shell“ greet you every time you launch the terminal? Navigate via Tracker to /boot/beos/etc/profile. You’ll need to make this file writeable. Right-click and select Get Info, then click on the little arrow at the lower left next to „Permission.“ Make the file Writable by Owner. Next, […]

You can use your choice of Tracker add-ons to quickly open a Terminal on the current Tracker window, but what if you want to go the other way and open a Tracker window on the Terminal’s current directory? There are a number of ways to do this, but the easiest way I’ve found is to […]

Create a BeOS Personal Edition CD that’s as slick as Pro’s CD By Jess Tipton Draft version 1.1 as at August 29, 2002 Edited by Chris „Technix“ Simmons. Edited for BeOS Tip Server by Cyan Helkaraxe. Introduction This article by Jess Tipton and edited by Chris „Technix“ Simmons will guide you through the process of […]

There is a simple way to share your bookmarks between Mozilla for BeOS and Windows (this works for Phoenix too). Mount your Windows partition and navigate to the Application Data directory for the version of Windows you are using. Windows 2000/XP: /[windows partition]/Documents and Settings/[username]/Application Data/ Windows 9x/ME: /[windows partition]/[windows directory]/Application Data OR /[windows partition]/[windows […]