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>1.4. Command line usage</H1
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>
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VLC has many different graphical interfaces, that
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are organized quite differently in order to be in harmony with the
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guidelines of each operating system supported. Documenting the use
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of each graphical interface is too long, and some features are only
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available via the command line interface. Therefore we decided to
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document only the command line interface, but in many cases it shoud
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be easy to guess how to use the graphical interface for the same use
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> VLS has a command line and a telnet interface, but no
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graphical interface !
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All the commands that show up in this document should be typed
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inside a terminal.
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>1.4.1. Open a terminal</H2
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>1.4.1.1. Windows</H3
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> Click on <EM
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> and type :
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CLASS="command"
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>cmd</B
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> <B
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>Enter</B
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(Windows 2000 / XP),</P
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><B
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CLASS="command"
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>command</B
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> <B
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(Windows 95 / 98 / ME).</P
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> The terminal appears
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Le terminal apparait
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>Figure 1-2. Windows terminal</B
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> Under Windows, you need to be in the directory where the
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program is installed to run it.
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>1.4.1.2. Linux / Unix</H3
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> Open a terminal
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>Figure 1-3. Linux X terminal</B
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> In the documentation, we adopt the following
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conventions for the Unix commands :
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> commands that should be typed as
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>root</EM
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> commands that should be typed as a regular user have a
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<B
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>1.4.1.3. Mac OS X</H3
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Go to <EM
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>Applications</EM
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folder <EM
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>Utilities</EM
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>Terminal</EM
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>Figure 1-4. Mac OS X terminal</B
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the program is installed to run it, and start the command with
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>1.4.1.4. BeOS</H3
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> In the deskbar, go to <EM
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<EM
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>Terminal</EM
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