Getting Help

Now you know just enough to get started. There are some other good places to find help once you are up and running:

Online help

The Mathematics Undergraduate Lab has a nice online help system you can access from Netscape. Type ``http://gamba.math.ubc.ca/localdoc/'' into Netscape's Location window and hit Return. The system covers topics such as the UNIX command line, X Windows, Maple, Java and more.

netscape

The browser netscape has an online manual that you can access by pressing the Handbook button in the row of buttons just above the document display area.

nedit

Then nedit text editor has an online help system under the Help menu.

man pages

The UNIX online help manual is cryptic but comprehensive. If you want information on, say, the ls command, you can type man ls at the UNIX prompt and you will see a scrolling text page about the ls command. If you want to find information about removing files, but don't know the name of the UNIX command that does it, try man -k remove which will produce a list of topics you could look at (the -k stands for keyword).

Good luck!