Table of Contents

• Useful UNIX Basics
• Useful UNIX Commands
• UNIX Editors
• Matlab
• Solaris
• Office Type Programs

Useful UNIX Basics

• UNIX at SLAC Your guide to using Central Unix Services at SLAC
• UNIX Help in plain English
• UNIX CD Bookshelf O'Reilly Online CD Books (slaconly access)

Useful UNIX Commands

• Login to VMS from AFS Without a Password Quick Setup (by Ken Brobeck) Note: Do not setup for Group accounts
  • SSH & SCP Guide Setup with examples (by Terri Lahey) Note: Do not setup for Group accounts
• Copying files using secure copy (scp)
  • From a UNIX client:
    • Copy a UNIX file to UNIX:
      scp username@unixhostA:directory/filename username@unixhostb:new_filename_on_unixhostB
      scp username@unixhostA:directory/filename new_filename
    • Copy a VMS file to UNIX:
      Source file is in pep_optics:[scratch]:
      scp -oProtocol=2 mcc:'/pep_optics/scratch/temp.cnf' /tmp
      or if your account name is different on VMS and PEPOPTICS:
      scp -oProtocol=2 YOURVMSACCT@mcc:'/pep_optics/scratch/pep2herys96.cnf' .
    • Copy a UNIX file to VMS:
      scp -oProtocol=2 /tmp/pep2herys96.cnf mcc:'/pep_optics/scratch/temp.cnf'
      scp -oProtocol=2 /tmp/pep2herys96.cnf YOURVMSACCT@mcc:'/pep_optics/scratch/temp.cnf'
  • From a VMS client:
    • Copy a VMS file to UNIX:
      scp2 myfile.m "pepoptics::/tmp/"
      scp2 myfile.m "YOURPEPACCT@pepoptics::/tmp/"
      If you get a file format problem with end-of-line characters (that are treated differently on VMS and UNIX), convert the file,
      and add switch "translate_vms=NONE"
      convert/fdl=pep_optics:[com]unixfile mycnf.cnf mycnf1.cnf
      scp2 /translate_vms=NONE mycnf1.cnf "pepoptics::/tmp/"
      scp2 /translate_vms=NONE myfile.m "YOURPEPACCT@pepoptics::/tmp/"
    • Copy a UNIX file to VMS:
      scp2 "pepoptics::/tmp/myfile.m " [ ]
      scp2 "YOUPEPACCT@pepoptics::/tmp/myfile.m " [ ]
• Printing and Printer Queues
  • To print type: lpr -P printer name
    A few MCC printers names include:

         mcc_big
         hpmccprint
         svmccolor
         svmcc4035
         elog_mcc
         peplog
         acclog

  • Command: lpq -P printer name - show printer queue status
• Stopping core files from being created
  With tcsh, put into your .cshrc file: limit coredumpsize 0
• SLAC AFS User's Guide
• How to Fix your keyboard maping of Delete to BackSpace
  With tcsh, put into your .cshrc file: xmodmap -e "keysym Delete = BackSpace"
• Wget, for retrieving remote groups of files quickly/easily

UNIX Editors

• Gnu Emacs Website
  • Emacs Manual
    • Key Commands Or Handy Emacs Tidbits
  • Princeton Emacs Cheatsheet
  • EmacsWiki is dedicated to documenting and discussing EmacsAndXEmacs.
  • EmacsLisp List
  • Quickies for Emacs
  • How to get rid of Windows end of line char (^M) and replace with a unix end of line:
  Answer is "M-x replace-string[enter] C-q C-m[enter] C-q C-j[enter]"
• Vi Manual

Matlab

• Running Matlab
  • MATLAB Help for MCC Users
• Compiling Matlab
  • MATLAB compiler notes for Solaris and Windows at SLAC Method 1
  • MATLAB compiler notes for Solaris at SLAC Method 2

Solaris

• Setting up a Sun Workstation
• Loading a SCP on a Solaris machine
• Changing screen resolution on a Sun Ultra 5

Office Type Programs

• Setting up StarOffice
• Hints for using MS Word and PowerPoint files on SLAC Unix (from BABAR)
• OpenOffice at SLAC