New User Computer Orientation Tutorial
or
How to become a computer nerd in 3 days
Revision 4.2
August 19, 1998
Table of Contents
| 1.0 | Introduction: The Department Computer Network | ||||
| 2.0 | There and back | ||||
| 2.1 | The Dark Side | ||||
| 2.2 | The Login Window | ||||
| 2.3 | The Basic Windows Environment | ||||
| 2.4 | Logging out of the System | ||||
| 3.0 | The Window System | ||||
| 3.1 | OpenWin or CDE? | ||||
| 3.2 | The Players | ||||
| 3.2.1 | The File Manager | ||||
| 3.2.2 | Emacs | ||||
| 3.2.3 | Xterm | ||||
| 3.2.4 | Console scroll window | ||||
| 3.3 | Using the Mouse | ||||
| 3.4 | Window Characteristics | ||||
| 3.5 | Basic Windows Maneuvers | ||||
| 3.5.1 | Resizing a Window | ||||
| 3.5.2 | Moving a Window | ||||
| 3.5.3 | Overlaying Windows | ||||
| 3.5.4 | Opening and Minimizing a Window | ||||
| 3.5.5 | Quitting a Window | ||||
| 3.5.6 | A Note on Permanency | ||||
| 3.6 | The Workspace Menu | ||||
| 4.0 | Newbies, Meet the Web | ||||
| 4.1 | Introduction to the WWW | ||||
| 4.2 | Introducing the Netscape Navigator | ||||
| 4.2.1 | Starting and Exiting the Netscape browser | ||||
| 4.2.2 | Window Layout | ||||
| 4.2.3 | Demonstration by Example | ||||
| 4.2.4 | Searching the WWW | ||||
| 4.2.5 | Helpful Resources | ||||
| 5.0 | Let's Do Mail; Electronic Mail | ||||
| 5.1 | Why do E-mail? | ||||
| 5.2 | Introducing the Netscape Mailer | ||||
| 5.2.1 | Starting and Exiting the Netscape Mailer | ||||
| 5.2.2 | Window Layout | ||||
| 5.3 | Reading Mail | ||||
| 5.4 | Replying to Mail | ||||
| 5.5 | Composing Mail | ||||
| 5.5.1 | A Note about Style | ||||
| 5.6 | Managing your Messages | ||||
| 5.6.1 | Using Mail Folders | ||||
| 5.6.2 | Deleting Mail | ||||
| 6.0 | Basic Unix Commands | ||||
| 6.1 | Listing a Directory's Contents | ||||
| 6.2 | Moving into a New Directory | ||||
| 6.3 | Viewing a Text File | ||||
| 6.4 | Printing a File | ||||
| 6.5 | Piping output to a Printer | ||||
| 6.6 | Copying a File | ||||
| 6.7 | Deleting a File | ||||
| 7.0 | Managing Files using the File Manager | ||||
| 7.1 | Pretty Pictures | ||||
| 7.2 | Changing Directories | ||||
| 7.3 | Viewing Files | ||||
| 7.4 | Copying and Moving a File | ||||
| 7.5 | Printing a File | ||||
| 7.6 | Deleting a File | ||||
| 8.0 | Emacs, more than an Editor | ||||
| 8.1 | Starting and Exiting Emacs | ||||
| 8.2 | Entering text into a file | ||||
| 8.3 | Navigating around the text | ||||
| 8.4 | Editing with the delete key | ||||
| 8.5 | Saving a File | ||||
| 8.6 | Loading a File | ||||
| 8.7 | Paging Through a Document | ||||
| 8.8 | The Emacs Tutorial | ||||
| 8.9 | Editing in Emacs | ||||
| 8.9.1 | Cut/Paste or Kill/Yank | ||||
| 8.9.2 | Removing a Paragraph | ||||
| 8.9.3 | Inserting Files | ||||
| 8.9.4 | Search and Replace | ||||
| 8.9.5 | Saving the File | ||||
| 8.10 | Getting Help in Emacs | ||||
| 8.10.1 | Emacs Apropos Help | ||||
| 8.10.2 | Emacs Bindings Help | ||||
| 8.10.3 | Emacs Mode Help | ||||
| 8.11 | Emacs Buffers | ||||
| 9.0 | Oh, The Things You Can Do | ||||
| 9.1 | SAS | ||||
| 9.2 | S-plus | ||||
| 9.3 | LaTeX | ||||
| 9.4 | Conclusion | ||||
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