There’s not much more you can do with the Terminal
application than what’s shown in this chapter, but
there’s an infinite amount of customization possible
with the tcsh shell (or any other shell you
might have picked). To learn more about how to customize your shell,
read the manpage. Be warned, though, the tcsh
manpage is over 4,700 lines long!
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, manpages are the
Unix version of online help documentation. Just about every
command-line (Unix) command has a corresponding manpage with lots of
information on starting flags, behaviors, and much more. You can
access any manpage by simply typing man
cmd. Start with man man
to learn more about the man system.
For more information on customizing tcsh, see Paul DuBois’ book, Using csh and tcsh, or Unix Power Tools, by Jerry Peek, Tim O’Reilly, and Mike Loukides, both available from O’Reilly.
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