I am grateful to all of the programmers who have provided the free apps for the 770. I have installed a bunch of the gui ones, and they do what they are supposed to, sometimes amazingly (e.g., vnc, mapper, caledar, gnumeric).

Not being a Linux afficianado, however, I am having trouble with the command-line apps. I have installed osso-xterm fine. I can work within that, looking at directories using the standard commands. My problem, (and it may just be me), is that there is little documentation for the command-line apps - I have no idea in which directory they are installed or what I have to do to invoke them.

example: ntpdate

After successful installation, when I just use the command 'ntpdate -b <servers>' (yes, I found time servers). I get 'command not found'.

So, what am I supposed to do? I read the author's blog (which is fun and I learned stuff, but I did not see anything about how to use the program or where the files were put on the 770). There are even some documentation files installed, but I have no clue how to invoke them.

I am a Windows guy, but I successfully used Ubuntu (with pointers from Forum members) to flash the kernal in OS2006 to use 2mb rs-mm's. So I am not an idiot. But I am spoiled, I guess, by the documentation standards in the Windows world. If the 770 is going to be popular, the available programs need to be readily useable by at least semi-literate adults.

In anycase, can someone help me make ntpdate useable - what do I have to do to invoke it from the command line in xterminal? Obviuosly I could bother the programmer, but I wanted to make the general point about documentation (I would be happy to pay for proper information - free should not always mean incomplete).