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UNIX at Fermilab Manual

Release 3.0

November 26, 1997

Compiled by Anne Heavey

Acknowledgments

In 1995-1996, the Fermilab Computing Division's VMS Migration Task Force was responsible for updating UNIX at Fermilab (from the June 1991 release) in time for the mass migration from FNALV. That task force included: Pushpa Bhat, Joel Butler, Lauri Loebel Carpenter, Mike Diesburg, Dave Fagan, Ken Fidler, Steve Hanson, Rob Harris, Joy Hathaway, Anne Heavey, Art Kreymer, Paul Lebrun, Frank Nagy, Judith Nicholls, Dane Skow, Mike Stolz, Roy Thatcher, Al Thomas, Matt Wicks, and Steve Wolbers.

Other contributors/reviewers included Liz Buckley-Geer, Chuck DeBaun, Lynn Garren, Randy Herber, Peter Kasper, Marc Mengel, Clyde Moseberry, Gene Oleynik, Ruth Pordes, Marilyn Schweitzer, Jonathan Streets, and Margaret Votava.

The CERN UNIX User Guide, after having lifted information from the early release of UNIX at Fermilab, was in turn used to provide much of that information back to us appropriately updated! Naturally, we lifted additional useful information from CERN's well-constructed manual. The CERN document Shell Choice, A shell comparison was also used.

This 1997 revision of UNIX at Fermilab includes contributions from many of the people listed above. Additional contributors/reviewers include Eileen Berman, Jim Fromm, Lisa Giacchetti, Jeff Kallenbach, John Marraffino, Laura Mengel, Liz Sexton-Kennedy, and Alan Wehmann.

We'd like to thank the readers who have taken the time to send us suggestions about the manual.

Revision Record

August 1990

Original Draft

March 1996

Total overhaul; then several minor revisions through September 1996

November 1997

Significant changes relative to 9/30/96 release (text changes within sections are not noted here). Chapter and section numbers correspond to new release:

Ch 1 (Introduction): new FNALU section (1.5)

Ch 2 (Getting Started): moved AFS information into AFS chapter (7)

Ch 3 (Information Resources): new Helpdesk section (3.5)

Ch 6 (File System): new tar section (6.3.7); moved AFS information into AFS chapter (7)

Ch 7 (AFS): new chapter

Ch 9 (Work Environment): added section on X-terminal support (9.5)

Ch 10 (UPS Products): new chapter (replacement)

Ch 11 (Editors): new information for the editor xemacs (11.3.2)

Ch 12 (Mail): new "Notice of Upcoming Changes"

Ch 14 (Batch): new chapter

Ch 15 (Tapes): condensed OCS coverage; added sections for FTT (15.4) and FMB (15.5)

Ch 16 (Sofware Dev): new section on the debugger GDB (16.11.3)

Ch 18 (Code Mgmt): condensed the UCM section (18.2)

Removed appendix on FUE Conformance Levels

Appx B (UPS Overview): new appendix

Appx F (mh and exmh Custom): new section on auto reply to mail (F.3)


UNIX at Fermilab - 10 Apr 1998

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