On-Line Help

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This help page is provided by systems staff for the Department of Mathematics so that departmental personnel may have access to documentation online. It will be modified periodically, and should remain more up-to-date than corresponding paper documentation. Help topics are listed below. Many of the features and commands described on these pages are common to all UNIX shells, but since the C-shell is the one primarily used in the Math Department, we do not distinguish between commands in UNIX and commands peculiar to the C-shell.

$*$ Aliases
$*$ Command Shortcuts
$*$ Compiling programs
$*$ Converting File Formats
$*$ Diff - comparing the difference in files
$*$ .dvi and .ps files - read and print them
$*$ Editors: Vi Editor; Emacs Editor
$*$ Email: Using email on Math computers; Change your email address to "yourname@math.wsu.edu"; Department Distribution Lists; Forward your email; Vacation email message - how to create one; Forward WSU email to your Math Dept. email
$*$ Environment Variables and the .cshrc file
$*$ .eps files - how to print them
$*$ Files - working with them
$*$ Find a file
$*$ Floppy - How to mount a floppy on a Linux machine
$*$ Gnome-terminal - restore it
$*$ Helpdesk - how to use the request system
$*$ Latex and Tex
$*$ LaTeX2HTML tutorial
$*$ Prosper: a package for making "powerpoint" style slides using LaTeX.
$*$ LaTeX2HTML help manual (more info than the tutorial)
$*$ Math Portal - using it

$*$ Mathematica - add it to your start menu

$*$ Mathematica - installation instructions
$*$ MatLab - add it to your start menu
$*$ MatLab - print from it
$*$ Man Pages
$*$ Netscape: Automatically open postscript links or .pdf files; Configure Netscape to save .pdf files to a file of your choice.
$*$ Panel - add an application launcher
$*$ Panel - restore it
$*$ Password - how to change your password
$*$ PDF Files - creating them in Linux
$*$ PDF Files - creating them from a Microsoft Word document
$*$ PDF Files - reading them using Mozilla
$*$ Postscript (.ps) files - read and print them
$*$ Printing
$*$ Projector - setting it up in the Newton Lab
$*$ Projector - connecting a laptop to the projector in Webster 11
$*$ PVM
$*$ RedHat 9.0

$*$ Samba
$*$ Scanner - Newton Lab
$*$ Scanner - Windows Lab
$*$ Spam - Filter it

$*$ SSH
$*$ StarOffice 6.0
$*$ Statpack - using SAS at WSU
$*$ Summary of Mathematics Computing
$*$ Tar
$*$ Unix Commands
$*$ Wireless - WSU Wireless Instructions
$*$ X Windows - running applications remotely
$*$ Web pages - why you need to make a welcome.html page in a web directory
$*$ Zip Disks - how to use them in Linux

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