The Guide

An Introduction to CS Systems

Edition 0.1, September 1993

• Preface
• Introduction
  • How to get to a UNIX account
    • Step One: The Account Application
    • Step Two: The Addme program
  • Acceptable Use Policy
    • Definitions
    • Who can get access to CS Systems
    • Users Rights and Responsibilities
    • Operating Guidelines for the CS Systems
    • Proper Use of the CS Systems
    • Software Copyrights and Licenses
    • Penalties for infractions
  • Etiquette
  • Conventions Used
• Getting Help
  • On-line Help
    • Man Command
      • How to use Man
      • Man Pages Organization
    • Info Command
    • Gopher Command
    • Internal Help
    • Help Through Newsgroups
  • Manuals and Books
    • UNIX BSD Quick Reference Guide
    • UNIX Programmers Manual
    • Books
  • Tutors and Sysgroup
    • Before You Go
    • Tutors
    • Sysgroup
• Accessing the systems
  • Basics of logging in and out
  • Logging on from the Computer labs on campus
    • Computer Science Lab
  • Dialing In from Home
  • Reporting Problems
  • Work arounds
• Basic UNIX Commands
  • UNIX Control-Key Commands
  • UNIX Command Syntax
  • Commands for Specific Purposes
    • File Manipulation Commands
    • Examining And Printing Files
    • To check or compare files
    • Compilers And Interpreters
    • Job Control
    • Miscellaneous Commands
• Unix Files & NFS
  • Unix File Types
    • Ordinary file
    • Directory
    • Special file
    • Links
  • File Trees and Pathnames
  • Handling Files
  • File Status
  • Protecting Files and Directories
  • Groups
  • Changing File and Group Ownership
  • Setuid & Setgid
  • File Systems and NFS (Network File System)
  • Related File System Commands
• Email
  • Mail addresses and protocol
  • Berkeley Mail
    • How to receive mail
    • More on mail addresses
      • Site and network
      • Secondary parsing
    • What to do when sending mail
  • MH -- Mail Handler
    • MH basic commands
  • Elm
• Ways to Communicate with Other Users
  • Mail
  • Messages
    • How to send messages
    • How to receive messages
  • News
  • Talk
  • Write
  • Mesg
  • Conferencing Programs
    • IRC
• Editors
  • Vi
    • How to learn vi
    • How to use vi
    • Entering and Leaving Vi
    • Inserting and Changing (end with esc key)
    • Correcting during insert
    • Deleting
    • Moving and Copying lines
    • Undoing and Restoring
    • Positioning within the file
    • Line Positioning
    • Character Positioning
    • Words, Sentences, Paragraphs
    • Searching for pattern
    • File manipulation
  • Emacs
    • Getting Started
      • Starting Emacs
      • Opening a file
      • Moving around in your file
      • Saving and exiting
      • Hints
      • Buffers
      • Windows
    • Emacs Help
    • Emacs19
    • The Emacs Initialization File
• X Environment
  • The Xresources file
  • Using a .twmrc
  • Features
    • Pop-up menus
    • Control Menus
    • Cut and Paste
  • Key Bindings
  • Tips
  • Logout
  • Error messages
• Text Processors
  • LaTeX
    • Where to Find Help for LaTeX
    • How to learn LaTeX
    • How to prepare files for LaTeX
      • Basic LaTeX commands
      • Some LaTeX-produced effects
    • How to run LaTeX
    • Previewers
    • LaTeX Examples
  • Troff
    • How to learn troff
    • How to prepare files for troff
      • Setting margins at top and bottom of pages
      • Setting type styles
      • Setting type sizes
      • Setting amount of space between lines
      • Setting line lengths
      • Setting tabs
      • Indenting text
      • Making labelled lists
      • Troff command summary
    • How to run troff
    • Example
  • Texinfo
• Printing
  • Lpr, lpq, lprm
    • lpr
    • lpq
    • lprm
  • Printing text files
    • line printers
    • PostScript printers for text files
  • Printing DVI files
    • line printers for DVI files
    • PostScript printers for DVI files
  • Printing PostScript files
    • line printers
    • PostScript printers
  • Printing Images
  • Printer Quotas
  • Printer Specific Features
  • Printers in the CS Department
• Using UNIX Systems Efficiently
  • UNIX Shells and Varieties
  • Customizing Your Environment
    • Setting abbreviations
    • Setting terminal characteristics
  • Changing Your Password
  • Re-executing Commands and Completing Commands
    • Re-executing commands
    • Completing commands
  • Controlling Jobs
    • Suspending jobs
    • Running jobs in the background
    • Running jobs in the foreground
    • Running several jobs at once
    • Example of controlling jobs
  • Maximizing Response Time
    • Running jobs at low priority
    • Running jobs during low-use times
  • Using Disk Space Efficiently
    • Using the du command
    • Using the UNIX file system
    • Deleting files
    • Compressing files
  • How not to print
  • Input / Output Redirecting and Piping
    • Redirecting Input / Output
      • Redirecting input
      • Redirecting output
    • Piping
      • Getting input from another command
      • Getting input from a string of commands
    • Combining Input / Output redirection and piping
    • Exceptions
  • The C shell
    • Special Characters
    • Input/Output
    • Character Matching
    • Special Variables
    • Job Control
    • Aliases
    • Restoring Deleted Files
  • Backing Up Files On Tape
    • Backing Up/Restoring Files
• News
  • General description
  • News Etiquette
  • How to read news
  • rn
    • Newsgroup selection level
    • Article selection level
    • Pager level
    • Options while invoking rn
    • Pnews
  • nn
    • nn modes
    • Selection Mode
    • Attributes
    • Reading Mode
    • Posting Articles
    • Three Very Important Files
    • What Next?
• Networking
  • Internet vs. BITNET
  • National Computing Networks
• File Transferring and Downloading
  • FTP
  • FTP Etiquette
  • RCP
  • XMODEM, YMODEM, and ZMODEM
    • XMODEM
    • YMODEM
    • ZMODEM
  • Kermit
  • Archiving
    • Compress and Uncompress
    • Tar
• Systems Summary
  • Sysgroup Training Machines
  • Appletalk Network
  • Printers
  • Other machines (run by the Computer Center):
• Newsgroups
  • Local Newsgroups
  • Recommended Newsgroups
• Index