Online Documentation
There are a number of different sources of online information. The
following sections outline some of the more important ones.
Web Resources
We have put together a modest collection of web pages to help you
understand the peculiarities of our unix instalation. These pages are
not intended to tell you everything about using Unix, but they
may help get started and they will tell you the site-specific features
of our systems. You can get to the top page of these resource by
clicking on the Index button above.
Man Pages
Most unix systems come with a large collection of online documents
called "man pages." The man is short for manual. There is a program
called man that will let you read the man pages for different topics.
For example, if you want to know about the awk command, just type:
man awk
In fact, if you want to know how to use man itself (this is a good
place to start if you have never used man before), you can just type:
man man
While you are viewing a man page, you can use space (or enter) to move
forward in the page and you can type b to move back. If you
type a slash (/), it will search forward through the man page
for whatever string you enter. Typing a question mark (?) will
let you search backward.
There is a graphical version of man called xman. It lets you see all
of the topics in each section of the online manual and lets you scroll
through each page with a scrollbar. Xman can come in handy if you
need to look at more than one man page at the same time.