On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:25:56 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> In Windoze:
>>>
>>> Start>  type calc [enter]
> 
> Actually, I put that on the Quick Launch bar so I can always access it
> quickly.
> 
>> In Linux:
>>
>> In the already running terminal window (on my system, I always have one
>> running), "bc".
> 
> 1. How do you get it so a terminal is always available? (Most distros
> I've seen make the terminal program one of the hardest things to find.

Alt-F2 -> gnome-terminal.

Done.

> It's easy to find Firefox or Evolution or Jabba, but the terminal window
> is usually somewhere under "advanced"... It's almost as if I'm using a
> Microsoft OS!)

It's usually under "system tools", which is appropriate.

> 2. Why type "bc" when you can type "ghci"? ;-)

Because 'bc' actually does something on my system - namely, it starts an 
arbitrary precision calculator. :)

Jim

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