3.3 Other Built-in Applications
3.3.5 Terminal windows
A terminal window can be opened in the graphical environment to provide a command line interface to the system.   Multiple terminal windows can be open at the same time. Each terminal window represents a new shell and displays a shell prompt waiting for user input. 

Anything you can do from the command line you can do from a terminal window. You will be working in a terminal window throughout much of this course as you learn various UNIX commands and what they do.
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  Terminal Window Shell

In this exercise you will enter the UNIX date command. This activity will demonstrate how a command is entered from the command line. The date command is similar to the CDE Clock application you learned previously.

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  Other Built-in CDE Applications

In this lab, you will work with several additional user applications that are included with the Common Desktop Environment (CDE). These include: Voice and Text Notes, Address Manager, Calculator and Clock. You will learn how to open a terminal window that will give you access to the UNIX command line.