UNIX Use in CS5604

Electronic Mail

• Send to instructor, read messages from instructor
• Access remote info, such as netlib, by sending email request
• Put "CS5604" in subject of message
• Put your login ID in each msg

Path and Environment

• For convenience, copy ~fox/.login to your .login file
• For XPECEDIT, if you don't want your .login totally changed, then do the following
  • add /u2/ImageEditor/bin to path
  • run script /u2/ImageEditor/bin/runedit or
  • put environment variables into .login and then invoke xprecedit&

Useful Commands

• cd
• emacs
• gopher
• kms
• logout
• ls
• man
• mkdir
• mosaic
• rm
• vi

Where to Look on Various Computers

• fox.cs.vt.edu
  • ~kmssys/kms for KMS frames
  • /u1/bin for executable routines
  • /u1/man for man pages (e.g., man -P /u1/man cjpeg)
  • /u1/src for source code of key software packages
• video.cs.vt.edu
  • ~kmssys/kmsdoc for KMS documentation in PostScript
  • /u4/abs for abstracts of Digital Library entries
  • /u4/bib for BibTeX files for entries with key starting A-L (1.bib) or M-Z (2.bib)
  • /u4/pages for page images