Related Links: UNIX 101

for tigger.uic.edu:

Softlist : http://tigger.uic.edu/softprod/tigger.html

for icarus.uic.edu:

Softlist: http://tigger.uic.edu/softprod/icarus.html

for argo.uic.edu:

Home Page: http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/hardware/argo

ACCC Password and Choosing a Safe Password

All the ACCC Unix servers and all other ACCC servers and services use the ACCC common password.

ACCC Policies

And while we're at it, the ACCC Policies: Acceptable Use, Software Piracy, Access for People with Disabilities, and more.

ACCC Online Disk Space Policy

ACCC online disk storage space policy, including limits and info on its effective use

Email Space Limits for ACCC Servers

How long is your email kept?

For information on using X Windows with the ACCC UNIX workstations, see the ACCC document Connecting with X Windows.

Did you delete or trash a file on your UNIX account? The ACCC runs automatic nightly backups of all files stored on an ACCC UNIX workstation. If your file was stored overnight, you can probably get it back using ADSM.

• ADSM backup clients for UNIX
• FAQ- Restoring Files with DSMC.

• Troubleshooting your ACCC UNIX problems. The ACCC's troubleshooting guides for your UNIX account, printing, diskspace problems, and more.
  
  
• What UNIX Shell Are You Using? What shells are available? They're listed in the softlist for your ACCC UNIX workstation.
  
  
• tin and trn: Finding That Newsgroup on UNIX
  
  
• ACCC Email Tools. Check to see how much email you have on the server (and, for icarus and tigger, your home directory usage as well), set up automatic email filters, repair locked email inboxes, or set up to send automatic "I'm on vacation" notices.
  
  
• pgp encryption for files and email

• UNIX Printing FAQ
• CSO UNIX Handouts
• University of Utah's Gnu Info Tree. Gnu is a major source of UNIX freeware; we have a lot of Gnu software on all our UNIX systems.
• UNM Introduction to UNIX. Maui High Performance Computing Center.
• Google's UNIX Web directory. Links to lots of information about everything that has to do with UNIX.

Google on:

All include documentation, FAQs and newsgroups.
AIX http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Unix/AIX/
Solaris http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Unix/Solaris/
Linux http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/

 

• UNIX 101: pico Editor
• Pine Email for UNIX
• Pine Related Links

UNIX Editors UNM Maui High Performance Computing Center

Mostly about vi, but some about pico; includes exercises.

Using vi, the Unix Visual Editor University of Washington Computing & Communications

Starts from the beginning and goes on to fairly advanced stuff.

The ACCC home page's Available Software and Services page, which has links to documents that list all available database and spreadsheet packages, programming languages and tools, science and math packages, statistical software, and word processing, editing, and printing.