Information for Users of the School Computer System

This collection of short guides is intended to introduce enough system features to get beginners started. It is not intended to be comprehensive. Please let the author of the guide or Peter Robinson know of any errors or ambiguities found. Contribution of additional short guides to useful topics for inclusion in future editions would also be appreciated.

Please DO NOT bother the system manager with questions until you have at least read the relevant parts of these brief guides and looked at the on-line info and manual entries for the subject of interest.

The principal means of distribution for these guides is electronic, via the web. To print these guides, simply use the PRINT command in the FILE drop down menu.

A very brief guide to Linux. C. Rennie (Updated 25 November 2011)

A Mug's Guide to Unix. P. A. Robinson (Updated 01 November 2000)

A Mug's Guide to vi. P. A. Robinson and N. G. R. Broderick (Updated 01 November 2000)

A Mug's Guide to Running Fortran Programs. P. A. Robinson (Updated 01 November 2000)

A Mug's Guide to Fortran 77. P. A. Robinson (Updated 03 March 2004)

Common Fortran Errors. P. A. Robinson (Updated 01 November 2000)

A Mug's Guide to IDL. C. Rennie (Updated 19 October 2010)

Including External Code in IDL. S. Knock (Updated 28 May 2003)

Debugging IDL S. Knock (Updated 26 April 2005)

Starting your own Web Home Page. A. Monger (Updated 18 October 2010)

Using email (and attachments) within the School of Physics. A. Monger (Updated 18 October 2010)

Latex spelling and grammer checking. Huiying Wu (Updated 18 October 2010 )

This page is maintained by Tony Monger.