Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Panther Edition

About These Arrows

Throughout this book, and throughout the Missing Manual series, you’ll find sentences like this one: “Open the System folder→Libraries→Fonts folder.” That’s shorthand for a much longer instruction that directs you to open three nested folders in sequence, like this: “On your hard drive, you’ll find a folder called System. Open that. Inside the System folder window is a folder called Libraries; double-click it to open it. Inside that folder is yet another one called Fonts. Double-click to open it, too.”

Similarly, this kind of arrow shorthand helps to simplify the business of choosing commands in menus, such as a →Dock→Position on Left, as shown in Figure I-1.

About MissingManuals.com

To get the most out of this book, visit http://www.missingmanuals.com. Click the “Missing CD-ROM” link to reveal a neat, organized, chapter-by-chapter list of the shareware and freeware mentioned in this book. (As noted on the inside back cover, having the software online instead of on a CD-ROM saved you $5 on the cost of the book.)

But the Web site also offers corrections and updates to the book (to see them, click the book’s title, then click Errata). In fact, you’re invited and encouraged ...