If anybody else has a non-existent terminal screen, and needs to write some new commands for java, I learned that it is caused by a font problem (as many things in the Mac are). if the typeface 'Monaco' isn't in your computer any longer thanTerminal won't work or produce a screen. In 'addressbook', if Helvetica is missing, same thing.Those fonts have to be in the System folder which has about 19 fonts, all apple fonts. I lost Monaco and Helvetica (I have a different one that isn't acceptable to Mac), and can't recover it. So those programs don't work for me.


ALSO, MAKE SURE you name any extra font folders sitting on your desktop waiting to be loaded, something slightly different than 'fonts' because the Mac will take the initiative and load the fonts (it happened to me!)...i.e. names like fontz, fontetc, etc, work.


Does anyone know of a place I can get Apple's Monaco and Helvetica? I tried Limewire, and, gratefully got a thousand other fonts, but not those.
Thanks.