The message 094BE488-C833-465D-83D0-F6356D111D50@ntlworld.com from Ruth Bygrave rbygrave@ntlworld.com contains these words:
...and rather to my surprise 'which perl' and 'perl -version' turns up a bog-standard perl 5.8.8. I was expecting to find things like perl cut down because this is a simplified linux on a very small PC.
Anyone else in the group got an eeePC?
I have.
I didn't reply to your Qs as they seemed to have been adequately covered.
However, as well as the keystroke to conjure it, there is an icon somewhere in one of the panes which will bring-up a terminal, if that was what you meant by a 'shell'.