Unix

General Unix/Linux

Unix Mini-Guide
This is a condensed version of unix how to.

Unix Secure Shell Logins and File Transfer
How to use the Secure Shell Client on Unix to login and transfer files (SFTP).

Printing in the Department
How to print various types of documents from the unix system.

Unix File Protections
All you want to know about making your files unreadable.

Using Group Directories
How to have multiple people access files in a group directory.

Taring and Ftping Directories
How to use tar and ftp to transfer a tree of directories.

How to kill or renice a job
What to do when you want to kill or renice a job running in the background. This includes logging yourself out if you got disconnected.

Using the PINE mail system
An introductory guide for pine, geared to users who primarily use Eudora.

Graphics and Windowing Systems

GNOME Intro
An introduction to the GNOME Window system and the Evolution e-mail client

GIMP

Editors and Document Processing

Emacs Mini-Guide
A brief getting started guide to emacs.

SSH and Emacs
Some potential difficulites with running SSH and emacs.

The vi Editor on Unix
An introduction to the vi editor.

LaTeX
LaTeX notes, including creating better PDF files from LaTeX documents.

Miscellaneous

ESS Mini-Guide
A brief intro to using ESS to run S-Plus in emacs.

Unixhelp Pages
These are on another site, and some of the information will be wrong for our setup, so beware. However, it is an excellent reference on the web. Just be sure to check with our man pages if something dosen't work the same.