Unix for the first time!

Table of Contents

Unix basics

  1. What is Unix ?
  2. Logging onto a Unix system
  3. What's in a name ?
  4. Commands, arguments & switches
  5. The hierarchical filestore structure
  6. File permissions

  7. The Screen Editor - vi
  8. Bourne and C-shell comparison
  9. Electronic mail
  10. User quotas
    11. Note: Pages below this point are not yet ready. We are working on them. Thanks for your patience
  11. Floppy disk management
  12. Print facilities
  13. Communications
  14. X bits and pieces
  15. And Finally ...

Appendices

  1. Unix Command Summary
  2. Basic X-window actions
  3. A short history of Unix
  4. A short history of X
  5. Fugs and Bunnies
 This collection of Unix pages was graciously suplied by Mr. Liam Madden who first wrote them as an online course for students who "realise their employability would be enhanced by gaining practical skills". We applaud their foresight and wisdom.

In accordance with the agreement made w/ Mr. Madden, I have updated, modified and massaged both the content and the HTML in these pages. What you see here is a comingling of our ideas. Where our opinions differed, I have placed my thoughts in a lighter shade of grey to set them off from Mr. Madden's original thoughts. In other places I have either inserted, (most often), or removed bits and pieces of the pages to bring them up to date.

Thanks to Mr. Madden for his kind contribution. Any and all errors in the following pages are my responsibility.
Tim Gottleber, May, 2000

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