useful linux command.
http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/linux/commands
http://politics.as.nyu.edu/object/latex_texshop_mac
How to Install Style and BiBTeX Style files
Create the following folder ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/misc
Place any style files (*.sty) in this folder.
Create the following folder ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst
Place any BiBTeX style files (*.bst) in this folder.
Where should I put my bibliographic database files?
Create the following folder ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib
Place any bibliographic database files (*.bib) in this folder.
http://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/2006-November/025541.html
as regards standard LaTeX, typesetting in TeX & Ghostscript
mode in TeXShop should produce both a dvi file and a pdf file. In
that case, TeX produces a dvi file, from which dvips produces a ps
file, from which Ghostscript (called through the ps2pdf script)
produces a pdf file. At the end of the process the ps file is erased
(unless "Save Posctscript File" is checked in TeXShop's Engine pref),
while the dvi and pdf files are kept.