CSI UNIX LAB 1S-110

This is a teaching Lab.
As of Fall 1996 there are 3 classes and several student projects currently using these computers. There are 21 stations in the lab with another 3 in the Adjunct office.

Table of Contence

• Classes
• Alumni Questionaries Spring 1997
• documentation
• supported programs
• unsupported programs
• tutorials
• FAQs (frequently asked questions)
• Unix Avalibility
• Internet resources
• projects using this server

The classes using this lab are:

From the Math, Chemistry, Applied Science, Engineering, and Computer Science Departments

• CSC 126
• CSC 270 Introduction to Scientific Computing
• ENS 336 Computer - Aided Engineering
• CSC 332 Operating Systems I
• CSC 430 Advanced System programming: Software engineering
• CSC 470 Computer Graphics
• CSC 710 Software Engineering
• CSC 712 Compiler Construction
• CSC 718 Operating Systems Design
• CSC 724 Formal Language Theory

Some of the Documentation for the Unix lab:

• manual pages online
• vi Reference
• how to setup your web page
• how to setup your account for these programs

The programs that we are currently supporting are:

• FORTRAN 77 compiler
• FORTRAN 90 compiler
• C compiler
• C++ compiler
• SPARCworks compiler IDE
• MatLab or from the source Mathworks matlab page
• Netscape Navigator World Wide Web Browser ...

Some of the programs that we are not currently supporting are:

these programs have been installed

• EMACS editing environment
• GNU C compiler
• the ispell spelling checker
• TeX publishing software
• LaTeX, publishing software or the offical LaTeX, home page.
• Perl 5 or Perl home page or the Perl Institute.
• Bison
• Bash
• pine email and net news reader or from the source the PINE home page at the University of Washington.
• elm email client
• lynx World Wide Web Browser
• gp math program
• rLab math program
• gzip file compression
• SNNS neural network simulator
• Kermit file transfer program or Kermit home page.
• oleo spreadsheet program
• Virtual Desk top (olvwm) and the resources for olvwm a a sample resource file
• Persistance Of Vision Ray tracing program or the POV home page.
• GNU smalltalk
• the j language (APL)
• xbill game to pratice your mouse skills with.
• XBoing another game to pratice your mouse skills with, or the XBoing home page, or the XBoing high scores list .
• xlisp AI language
• show the phases of the moon
• clutter up your screen with roaches
• xv program to view graphics
• the Andrew User Interface System or from the source Carnige Mellon Andrew User Interface System home page AUIS
• the Adobe Acrobat Reader for PDF documents
• the RealAudio plugin
• a comparison of some free spreadsheet programs

Programming and Unix tutorials:

• A list of references
• A quick HTML turorial
• A quick UNIX tutorial
• An introduction to UNIX
• Unix for DOS users, tutorial
• Unix shell tutorial
• TCL/TK tutorial
• C shell programming considered harmfull
• vi tutorial from Unix World
• UNIX is a four letter word, Unix & vi tutorial
• a basic emacs tutorial
• a basic emacs reference
• a basic vi reference
• vi tutorial
• a basic LaTeX tutorial
• a tutorial of basic unix commands
• a tutorial of basic unix utilities

out there some whare

• an off site Java tutorial
• an off site Java tutorial : not for beginers

FAQs (frequently asked questions) for the Unix lab:

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) pages online
• vi FAQ local or the newest version vi FAQ
• C FAQ local or the newest version uptodate C FAQ
• g++ FAQ local or the newest version uptodate g++ FAQ
• java FAQ local or the newest version uphtodate java FAQ
• lisp FAQ local or the newest version lisp FAQ
• prolog FAQ local or the newest version prolog FAQ
• scheme FAQ local or the newest version scheme FAQ
• software enginering FAQs
• emacs FAQ local or the newest version emacs FAQ
• gnus FAQ local or the newest version gnus FAQ
• UNIX shell FAQ local or the newest version UNIX shell FAQ
• UNIX socket programming FAQ local or the newest version UNIX socket programming FAQ
• Solaris 2 UNIX FAQ local or the newest version Solaris 2 UNIX FAQ
• Perl/TK FAQ local or the newest version Perl/TK FAQ
• Perl FAQ local or the newest version Perl FAQ

Avalibility of UNIX resources on the internet :

• the Solaris web page and educational priceing
• the SCO web page educational price $19
• Linux: another unix
• URLs with unix information
• URLs with Linux information
• Caldera: Linux distribution
• Red Hat: Linux distribution
• Debian: Linux distribution
• Slackware: Linux distribution
• MkLinux: Linux distribution
• InfoMagic: set of 6 Linux CDROMs $25 1(800)800-6613 or $17 from MEI 1(800)634-3478
• Walnut Creek: Linux & unix CDROMs 1(800)786-9907 6 CDROMs $30
• Pacific HiTech: Linux & unix CDROMs 1(800)765-8369 10 CDROMs $50
• CD-ROM Shop: Linux & unix CDROMs 1(800)999-9756 10 CDROMs $25
• Sunsite: Linux archive
• TSX-11: Linux archive
• FreeBSD: another unix
• NetBSD: another unix
• OpenBSD: another unix

other resources on the internet :

• the Sun web page
• the Sun Soft web page
• URLs with unix information
• search the world wide web
• index of the world wide web
• sunWHERE
• sunworld online ezine
• the UNIX Reference Desk
• unixworld ezine
• unixworld online ezine
• javaworld ezine
• netscapeworld ezine

Some web pages on this server

• Syed Misbah
• Steven Shoemaker
• Shobana Ravishankar
• lookup information in the man pages
• Message of the day
• How to remotely access the CSI UNIX lab
• show all users logged in, WARRING this may take 30 min
• show the status of the compiler licenses, WARRING this may take 5 min

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