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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
      • Initialising your account
      • Using newuser
      • Using newuser.php
      • Those who had an account last year
    • Thesis Accounts
    • Choosing a Password
    • Some Rules
    • Some Suggestions
    • A WARNING
  • Using Classrun
  • The Booking System
    • Booking Tokens
    • Class Bookings
    • Making a Booking
      • Book
      • Tkbook
      • URL Control_Panel
    • 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
      • Connecting to UDUS
    • SSH Access
      • Editing via ssh
    • 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
    • Inside an xterm
    • Outside an xterm
  • The Window Manager
    • Fluxbox
    • Twm
    • WindowMaker
    • KDE
  • Changing your Window Manager
  • XScreenSaver
  
  
• Internet Tools
  • Electronic Mail
    • mail
    • pine
    • Redirecting 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