Office of Information Technology - ACS Help System

Table of Contents

Topics

• GENERAL
• ACS
  • INTRODUCTION TO ACS
  • ELECTRONIC MAIL
  • PRINTING
  • COMMUNICATIONS
  • APPLICATIONS (MISC.)
  • REFERENCE TOOLS
  • GRAPHICS
  • PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
  • STATISTICAL PACKAGES
  • SUBROUTINE LIBRARIES
  • TEXTPROCESSING
    • EDITORS
    • FORMATTERS
  • UNIX
• FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Documents

• Ethics Policy
• Regular Hours
• Holiday Hours
• Campus Computing Facilities
• Tutorials
• Handouts Available at IT
• IT Supply Store

• INTRODUCTION TO ACS
  • The ACS Cluster
  • Account Expiration
  • AIX Hints
  • Disk Quotas on ACS
  • Foreign Fonts
  • Hours Command
  • INFOExplorer - AIX Hypertext Help Browser
  • LVRUN (Leave-running) Command
  • Msgs and Umsgs
  • Passwords
  • Restoring Files on ACS
  • Transferring Files from Tape or Disk to ACS
  • Using Tapes on ACS
  • Temp Storage
• ELECTRONIC MAIL
  • Using E-mail at Boston University
  • E-mail quotas
  • E-mail forwarding
  • Local mail modifications
  • Preventing Junk Mail
  • Chain Letters
  • Metamail
• PRINTING
  • Printing
  • DOS/Windows Print Facility
• COMMUNICATIONS
  • Connecting to ACS
  • Dialing In to the Campus Network
  • Network Filtering
• APPLICATIONS (MISC.)
  • Mathematica
  • MATLAB
  • Net II.5
  • Wingz Spreadsheet
• REFERENCE TOOLS
  • Oxford English Dictionary (OED2)
  • Webster Online Dictionary
• GRAPHICS
  • NCAR Graphics Libraries
  • IslandDraw
  • IslandPaint
• PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
  • C
  • FORTRAN
  • GDB
  • Lisp
  • Pascal
• STATISTICAL PACKAGES
  • BMDP
  • Minitab
  • SAS
  • SPSS
  • TSP
• SUBROUTINE LIBRARIES
  • IMSL
  • NAG
• TEXTPROCESSING
  • EDITORS
    • Emacs
    • PICO
    • Text editing
    • Uni-xedit and Uni-rexx
    • VI
  • FORMATTERS
    • DVIPS
    • FrameMaker
    • Ghostscript
    • Ghostscript Notes
    • Interleaf
    • Islandwrite
    • Latex
    • Tex
    • Troff
    • Troff summary
    • XDVI
• UNIX
  • AIX Hints
  • Access Protection - CHMOD
  • Access Protection - UMASK
  • UNIX Job Control
  • X Terminal Security

• WHERE CAN I FIND ARCHIE?
• HOW CAN I FORWARD ALL NEW E-MAIL TO A DIFFERENT ADDRESS?
• HOW CAN I AUTOMATICALLY SAVE A COPY OF ALL MY OUTGOING MAIL IN PINE?
• HOW CAN I ACCEPT "TALK" MESSAGES BY DEFAULT?
• HOW CAN I AUTOMATICALLY SAVE A COPY OF ALL MY OUTGOING MAIL IN ELM?
• HOW DO I AUTOMATICALLY ATTACH A SIGNATURE FILE TO MY OUTGOING MAIL IN ELM?
• HOW DO I INSERT A FILE INTO A MESSAGE IN UNIX MAIL?
• HOW DO I FORWARD A MESSAGE IN UNIX MAIL?
• HOW DO I AUTOMATICALLY ATTACH A SIGNATURE FILE TO MY OUTGOING MAIL IN PINE?
• HOW DO I CREATE A PLAN FILE?