Contents

• About this Guide
• Introductory comments
• What can the workstation do for you?
• Do you have to read this entire manual?
• Files
  • File names
  • Displaying the contents of a file
  • Editing a file
  • Printing
    • Problems with printing
  • Directories
  • Copying, renaming, and deleting files
  • File protection
  • Giving another user access to a file
  • Backing up files
    • Buying tapes
  • Finding files
  • Disk quotas
  • Scratch disk space
• UNIX miscellany
  • Usernames
  • Non-standard features of our UNIX
  • Control characters
  • Miscellaneous useful commands
  • What is a shell?
  • UNIX equivalents to autoexec.bat, login.com
  • Input/output redirection
  • Pipes
• Security
  • Note for undergraduates, hackers, crackers, and game players
• Login messages: msgs and notice
• Documentation
  • On-line documentation
  • On-line books
  • On-line tutorials
  • Printed documentation
• The ethernet
• Xterminals
  • Using an Xterminal
  • Fixing a stuck Xterminal
• Plotting
• TeX and LaTeX typesetting
• e-mail
  • Brief comments on the choice of mail programs
  • Extracting and printing mail messages
  • e-mail addresses
  • Some details of how mail works
  • Advanced use of mailers
• USENET
• PINET
• Disasters
• How to login/logout
  • Logging in
    • Using a modem
    • From CSDVAX
  • From the CANCES cluster or a cumulus machine
    • From a terminal connected to the LACE
    • From a PC connected to the ethernet
  • Logging out
  • Logging in to other computers from newt
    • Logging in to CSDVAX
    • Logging in to the CANCES cluster
    • Logging in to the IBM 3090
    • Logging in to computers on AARNET or the Internet
• Transferring files from/to other computers
  • From/to CSDVAX while logged into newt
  • From/to newt while logged into CSDVAX
  • From/to the CANCES cluster while logged onto newt
  • From/to AARNET/Internet computers while logged into newt
  • From/to a PC connected via a serial line
• Compiling programs
  • Programming languages available
  • FORTRAN
  • Debugging FORTRAN programs
  • Problems in porting FORTRAN programs
  • C
  • Pascal
  • Standard mathematical libraries: NAG, IMSL, Numerical Recipies
• Locally added software
  • Arbitrary precision mathematics
  • FORTRAN to C converter
  • Image processing software-IRAF
  • Miscellaneous local software
• Running computationally intensive jobs
  • Batch queues
  • Writing computationally intensive programs
  • Checking the progress of your job
  • Programs requiring huge memory allocation
  • Programs requiring huge time allocation
• Comparisons between UNIX and other operating systems
  • Comparison between UNIX and VMS
  • Comparison between UNIX and MS-DOS
• About this document ...