VTAIX

General purpose UNIX machine available for faculty, staff, and students with their department's permission.

Additional Resources

Introduction & Overview Support Level, Intended Audience, Notation, Sample Files, VTAIX Accounts, and Software Availability

Accessing VTAIX Loggin On and Logging Out, Using the Keyboard, and Using the X Windows System

Learning to Use UNIX and Consulting Assitance the help, man, and news commands; InfoExplorer; Message of the Day; Computing Center Documentation and Consulting

Working with Files Looking at file contents; copying, erasing, renaming, and printing files; introduction to redirection, pipes, and filters

Working with Directories the UNIX file system; pwd, cd, mkdir, rmdir, and mv commands; file and directory access permissions; group ownership, and locating files or text within files

Working in the Shell Environment shell characteristics, shell and environmental variables, alias and history commands, shell scripts

Working with UNIX Programming Tools UNIX design philosophy, compiling C and Fortran programs, background processing, UNIX development tools -- make and ar

Communicating with Other Users and Other Systems Using mail, telent, tn3270, and ftp

Individual User Security Concerns backups, passwords, and file access permissions

Command Index Table of equivalent commands on IBM VM/CMS, DEC VAX/IMS, PC-DOS, and UNIX

References General UNIX, vi, and System Administration

Trademarks

• AIX is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation
• DEC is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation
• IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines
• Ethernet is a trademark of XEROX Corporation
• Sun is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
• UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T
• VT100 is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation