Physics Workstation Guide

Version 1.501-May-1996Michael Ashley

Comments/suggestions/corrections welcomed--please email mcba@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au

• Contents
• About this Guide
• Introductory comments
• What can the workstation do for you?
• Do you have to read this entire manual?
• Files
• UNIX miscellany
• Security
• Login messages: msgs and notice
• Documentation
• The ethernet
• Xterminals
• Plotting
• TeX and LaTeX typesetting
• e-mail
• USENET
• PINET
• Disasters
• How to login/logout
• Transferring files from/to other computers
• Compiling programs
• Locally added software
• Running computationally intensive jobs
• Comparisons between UNIX and other operating systems
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