Introduction to the ACPUB Workstations

Getting Started

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 Unless you have a computer using XWindows, you will likely not be able to run SAS from home, but you can preview assignments from Netscape.

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.

Some basic UNIX commands

• 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)
• pine start up the program pine to send email
• pico filename (edit the file called filename with the pico editor
• More commonly Used Unix commands

Ending the Session