A User's Guide to UNIX and Workstations

Harold W. Schranz
Department of Physical Chemistry
University of Göteborg

Abstract:

This guide is intended as a description of typical features of the UNIX operating system and related software packages (e.g. editors, compilers, graphics, word processing) that are found within a workstation environment. Specific reference will be made to the IBM RT PC workstation and the IBM implementation of UNIX, AIX. The emphasis will be on topics of interest in scientific programming (e.g. Fortran 77 programming).

• Contents
• Introduction
  • What is UNIX?
  • What is a Workstation?
• AIX on the IBM RT PC workstation
  • Documentation
  • Logging into and out of the Shell
  • AIX Command Syntax
  • Files and Directories
  • A Useful Subset of AIX Commands
    • Moving Around and Listing Directories
    • Copying, Moving and Deleting Files and Directories
    • Combining and Listing Files
    • Printing Files
    • Changing Permissions
    • Backing up and Restoring Files and Directories
    • Shell Processes
    • Disk Storage and Usage
    • Miscellaneous Commands
• Editors
• Compilers
  • cc: the UNIX C Compiler
  • vsf: the IBM VS Fortran Compiler
  • f77: the UNIX Fortran 77 Compiler
• Graphics
  • Professional Graphics Series
  • UNIRAS
• TeX and LaTeX : Mathematical Type Setting
• Mathematica: A Mathematical Laboratory
• Communications and Networks
• DOS Shell
  • Copying DOS diskettes files to the AIX file system
  • Copying AIX files to DOS diskettes
  • AIX Operating System DOS commands
• AIX Shell Scripts
• Appendix
  • List of AIX Manuals
    • Basic AIX Manuals
    • Advanced AIX Manuals
  • Examples of AIX Shell Scripts
    • bcpltf: remote copy: local to foreign host
    • bcpftf: remote copy: foreign to foreign host
    • bkpsf3: backup some files
    • difil: page differences between two files
    • dosrd: copy DOS file to AIX file
    • doswr: copy AIX file to DOS file
    • dosrd2: copy all DOS files in specified directory to AIX files
    • doswr2: copy selected AIX files to DOS files
    • finlon: find lines in files longer than specified length
    • finfil: find file names with specified string
    • finstr: find lines within files with specified string
    • flc: convert file names to lower case
    • fuc: convert file names to upper case
    • lcfiles: convert file contents to lower case
    • ucfiles: convert file contents to upper case
    • mkdskfs: make floppy disk file system
    • mvsf: move selected files to new directory
    • prbn2: print selected files with banners
    • prlpp: list system program history files
    • rcpltf: remote copy: local to foreign host
    • rpsmy: remote list of user processes
    • sedf: stream edit specified files
  • References
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