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Contents

• The Basics
  • Local Knowledge
    • How to Get Help
    • Where is Everything?
      • Laboratories
      • Accessing the Labs
      • Accessing Individual Computer Terminals
      • The Wireless Network
      • The Laptop Lab
      • Printers
      • Booking Terminals
      • Information Terminals
    • Accounts
      • What is an account?
      • How to get an account
      • Thesis Accounts
      • Choosing a Password
      • Some Rules
      • Some Suggestions
      • A WARNING
    • Using Classrun
    • The Booking System
      • Booking Tokens
      • Class Bookings
      • Making a Booking
      • Taking Up Your Booking
      • Being Late For a Booking
      • Dishonoured Bookings
      • Help with Book and Tkbook
    • Local Etiquette
      • Good Laboratory Behaviour
      • Why is my Account Access Denied?
      • The Online Yellow Form and University's Rules Relating to Student Use of Computing and Electronic Facilities
    • Originality of Assignment Submissions
      • Plagiarism
      • Collusion
      • Similarity Detection and Followup
      • A Word of Advice
    • Loans From the Help Desk
      • Where is it?
      • Who Can Borrow?
      • How to Borrow
      • Responsibilities
    • Other Useful Things to Know
      • Restoring Files
      • Accessing Your Floppies
      • Accessing Your USB memory-stick/drive
      • Disk Quotas
      • Print Quotas
      • Internet Quotas
      • The acc Command
    • Computing at Home
      • Modem Access
      • SSH Access
      • More on SSH
  • An Introduction to UNIX
    • What is UNIX?
    • The Basics
      • Your Login name
      • Logging On and Off
      • Files
      • Directories
      • Home Directories
      • The Current Directory
      • Creating a File
      • Creating a Directory
      • Manipulating Files and Directories
      • Creating a Symbolic Link
      • Printing
      • Finding the Nearest Printer
      • Sending a Job to the Printer
      • Checking the Printer Queue
      • Removing a Job from the Printer Queue
      • Permissions
      • Changing Permissions
      • Finding and Killing Your Processes
    • Useful Commands
      • Checking your Account Details
      • Print Commands
      • Floppy Disk Commands
      • Compressing Files and Directories
      • Viewing and Printing Microsoft Office Documents
      • Viewing and Printing PDF and PS files
      • Basic L^ATEXCommands
    • The Online Manual
      • tkman
    • Info
  • Introduction to Shells
    • What is a Shell?
    • Initialisation Files
      • .xsession
      • .profile
      • .shellrc
    • Changing Your Default Shell
    • What is a PATH?
    • Shell and Environment Variables
    • stdin, stdout and stderr
    • Exit Status
    • UNIX Shell Metacharacters
    • Shell Scripts
  • The X Window System
    • Some Basics
    • Getting Started
    • Logging in without .xsession
    • Setting the X Display Resolution
    • Mouse Buttons
    • The Window Manager
      • Fluxbox
      • Twm
      • WindowMaker
      • KDE
    • Changing your Window Manager
    • XScreenSaver
  • Internet Tools
    • Electronic Mail
    • News
      • Reading News
      • Writing News
      • Reading News with a Web Browser
    • FTP
      • FTP Commands
    • SCP
    • The World Wide Web
      • How to Look at Web Pages
      • Common Browsers
      • Common Problems with Browsers
      • What is a Home Page?
      • Creating Your Own Web Pages