Introduction to the ACPUB Workstations

Getting Started

To use any of the workstations you must first have an account on the Duke workstation network. It may be obtained at the Consulting Desk (room 136 North Building, 660-2983).

Find a free workstation at one of the UNIX clusters on campus:

133 Soc/Psych
139 Engineering
100 North
106 Teer Eng. Lib.
125 Carr

In addition, all the workstations are accessible from Duke terminals and PC clusters, and from home computers equipped with modems by dialing 684-4900 (8-n-1, 1200--9600bps). If you have any questions about this or other topics, check the Duke Help Pages

To login to a workstation jiggle the mouse and a ``login'' window should appear. Enter your userid and your password and hit Return. Two Xterm windows will appear on the screen.

If this is your first usage of the system you should immediately change your password. Do this by typing:

	passwd

and following instructions. Be sure to remember your new password, you will need it to login next time.

Some basic UNIX commands

Some basic UNIX commands that will be useful:

ls (think: list) shows a list of all files in your current directory.
rmfilename (think: remove) removes a file named filename
cp filename1 filename2 (think: copy) copies a file called filename1 to a new file called filename2.
cd directoryname (think: change directory) to directory named directoryname
pwd (think: present working directory, i.e. where you are on the computer)
more filename (displays a file a screenful at a time)
pico filename (edit the file called filename with the pico editor

Ending the Session

To log out of the machine, move the mouse cursor to the icon at the top of the screen that says Logout and click it with the mouse. All your windows should disappear, and the login window should reappear on the screen