Research Computing: Set up

Research Computing

• Document Processing
• Electronic Mail
• File Transfer
• Graphics and Images
• Libraries of Mathematical and Statistical Routines
• Line Editing Commands
• Logging In
• Mathematical Software
• Miscellaneous Information
• Printing on Paper
• Programming Lanuguages
• Research Computing: Set up
• Running Programs in the Background
• Sample projects
• Setting Things Up the Way You Like
• Text Editors
• The UTSTAT Computer System
• The World Wide Web
• Using Unix
• Using X-Windows
• Viewing Things on the Screen
• Writing Your Own Shell Files
• X-Windows Servers for Home Use

Detailed instructions on how to do some useful things:

• Setting things up the way you like (and changing your password) : How to change defaults to suit you.
• Writing your own shell files : Creating new commands that do things you want.
• Running programs in the background : How to do this, without hurting other users.
• Line editing : How to save typing in programs that support line editing.
• Using X-windows from home : How to set up an X-windows server on your home computer, or on a Windows machine connected to the local U of T network.