UNIX Systems

Using UNIX Systems

UNIX systems and software: Description

The University of Delaware's central, general-purpose, Solaris (UNIX) systems -- Copland and Strauss -- are used for many academic activities including course work, text processing, and scholarly research. Copland is used for e-mail, newsgroups, and web browsing; Strauss is used for work that involves programming.

Faculty, staff and students can access the University's UNIX operating systems in any on-campus computing site or from your own computer either on or off campus.

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UNIX: Using central systems

This section catalogs UD-specific and vendor-supplied documentation. In addition, various UNIX commands and applications are documented online by their UNIX "man" (manual) pages. (Type man xxx on any system to learn about topic xxx.)

Overview and getting started
- Overview
- Hardware specifications and software lists
- UNIX Groups
  - General information
  - Group access to web folders
- Configuring your UNIX account -- the "dotfiles"
Chemistry applications
- Gaussian (G03)
Document production
- Adobe Acrobat (AcroRead and Distill)
- TeX/LaTeX basic instructions
- Thesis and dissertation TeX/LaTeX templates
E-mail
- Pine mail
- Creating and maintaining UNIX mailing lists
- Configuring your UNIX account -- the "dotfiles"
Engineering applications
- Nastran
- Patran
File handling
- Basic commands
- FTP: File transfer protocol software for copying files between systems
- Editors
  - Pico
  - Vi
  - Xc
  - Xemacs
  - Emacs
- Recovering deleted files
- Compressing and uncompressing files
GIS: Geographic Information Systems
- General information (including documentation on ESRI software)
Gradebook -- UNIX-based grade maintenance system
- Introduction
- Tutorial
Graphics
- DI-3000 (Fortran-callable subroutine library)
- PV-Wave
- NCAR Graphics
- GNUplot
LINUX
- LINUX Users' Group at UD
Mathematics
- FIDAP/GAMBIT: Finite element modeling
- Gaussian (G03)
- LINDO: Linear, INteger, Discrete Optimization (LP & mixed IP)
- GAMS: Generalized Algebraic Modeling System (with MINOS and ZOOM)
- Maple
- Mathematica
- Matlab
- Nastran
- Patran
Numerical Libraries
- CTT (IMSL)
- NAG
- LAPACK
Online Documentation
- Solaris OS and Sun-supported compilers and applications
Printing
- Printing on central UNIX printers
Programming languages
- General and quick-start information on C, Fortran, Scheme and Pascal
- Graphics Libraries
  - DI-3000 (Fortran-callable subroutine library)
  - NCAR Graphics
- Java
- Numerical libraries
  - CTT (IMSL)
  - NAG
  - LAPACK
- Prolog (BinProlog 3.0)
- Scheme - DrScheme
- Sun Studio Integrated development environment for C++, C, Fortran 95, Fortran 90, and Fortran 77 applications
Quotas on UNIX filesystems
- General information
- Requesting quota changes
Scan Forms (optical mark response forms for surveys and tests)
- Overview and procedures
- Pink Scan form
- Brown Scan form
- Teal Scan form
- Test scoring form
  - ITEMAL (Item analysis for tests on optical scan forms)
  - Gradebook
Secure shell (SSH)
- Instructions
- Software download
Site-licenses
- UNIX-based software
Statistical software
- Research & Data Management Services - data and software assistance
- HLM
- ITEMAL (Item analysis for tests on optical scan forms)
- LIMDEP
- LISREL and PRELIS
- Maple
- Mathematica
- Matlab
- MINITAB
- SAS
- SAS/GRAPH
- SPSS
- STATA
- TSP (Time Series Processor)
Sun Microsystems-supplied documentation
- Solaris OS and Sun-supported compilers and applications
X terminals
- Sun Ray Terminals at UD

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Other resources

UD's LINUX User Group
UD's UNIX Administrators' User Group
Training sessions, held on campus periodically.
Search UD
Search the Internet

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If you still need help...

Contact the University of Delaware Information Technologies Help Center by phone (831-6000) or by e-mail.

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