F-1 HELP AND INFORMATION PAGE

This page contains computer manuals, directions for computer usage, and various supplemental local information. All commands and buttons on the machines themselves have been retained (like "linfo", "showloc", etc.). This page supplements them but may in the future supersede them. Sometimes the quickest way to the relevant information is still found by typing "man -k keyword" in a terminal window.

Help pages for HP workstations

• General introduction (the same as the command "linfo")
• Terminal window commands (the same as the command "showloc")
• TeX Help for TeX-related menus, buttons, and actions

Help pages for SGI workstations

• General introduction (the same as the command "linfo")
• Terminal window commands (the same as the command "showloc")
• TeX Help for TeX-related menus, buttons, and actions

Help pages for the SGI Power Challenge

• Saturn Insight Library, useful because it can be searched by keyword.
• General introduction (the same as the commands "linfo" or "instruct")
• Terminal window commands (the same as the command "showloc")
• Hibernator instructions (a simple digest of commands)

Unix

• csh manual (HP) The shell manual. Users of csh and tcsh alike should look for general commands here; most things are valid on any machine. The tcsh manual page is too long to read.

Editors, Gnuplot

• Jed editor instructions (postscript), formatted in LaTeX. (Jed emulates emacs and EDT simultaneously; the numeric keypad is set to work EDT style on all workstations.)
• Gnuplot manual (postscript), formatted in LaTeX.
• Gnuplot for LaTeX instructions (postscript), formatted in LaTeX. This page shows how to use Gnuplot in LateX.
• ggnup (simple-to-use "batch" type gnuplot preprocessor script)

TeX, LaTeX

• RevTeX command summary (postscript)
• RevTeX Style Guide (postscript)
• RevTeX sample output (postscript)
• RevTeX sample input (plain text)
• LaTeX manual (essentials, online, CERN)

HTML

• HTML Primer

Computer benchmarks

• Benchmarks by R. Krivec
• Processor speed table: A comparison of SPEC and Linpack numbers for a set of processors, compiled from Linpack, SPEC and other sources. This is a quite interesting table for the floating point users, showing the relative worth of processors (relative to theoretical values), and the relative worth of some well-known benchmarks.

R. Krivec