MIT Athena Computing Environment: What Runs Where: Help/Information Detail
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What Runs Where
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Title and description: ahelp Gives help on programs that are part of the Andrew System To run: athena% add andrew athena% ahelp athena% ahelp keyword See also: olh
Title and description: Answerbook Description: former Sun documentation browser; please use URL below for all current Sun docs To run: See the Sun documentation site
Title and description: apropos Description: searches for strings and key words in main pages To run: athena% apropos search_string See also: man
Title and description: athinfo Description: retrieves information about a workstation in multiple categories; can be run remotely To run: athena% athinfo host query athena% athinfo host queries (prints allowed queries for host) See also: sysinfo
Title and description: info Description: "pseudo-hypertext" browser for information files in GNU info format, used by many GNU applications. The second form below is most useful for viewing info files that are not linked to the "standard", system-wide ones To run: athena% add gnu (Sun - optional for Linux) athena% info ( starts from a "standard, system-wide info home page") athena% info -f infofile (starts from the given info page) See also: man Note: info is only useful for finding information about gnu locker contents on Sun; on Linux, running it without adding the gnu locker will give information about many applications stored locally on the machine
Title and description: locate Description: searches for full path to a file based on file name or path fragment which is input. The command will print back all full paths matching the search pattern (wildcard characters are allowed). Currently this is only useful for finding things on local hard drives of Linux machines To run: athena% locate pattern See also: man Note: depends on a "locate database" that must be kept current- typically this is rebuilt periodically from a cron script
Title and description: man, xman Description: supplies information from the UNIX Programmer's Manual about many UNIX commands and applications. man uses a TTY interface and xman uses an X interface. Can also be available for Third Party applications in lockers (i.e. if you run application foo in locker bar by doing add bar; foo then man foo may give you useful information). If you want information about man itself, just do man man To run: athena% man search_string (for a TTY interface) athena% xman & (for an X interface, Sun only) See also: apropos, info, locate, olh
Title and description: olc, olc_answers Description: online system allowing users to be connected to Athena Consultants. A user enters a question that may be answered in real-time or queued if no consultants are currently available. olc_answers is a browsing system for olc "frequently asked questions" To run: athena% olc (TTY interface) followed by an appropriate keyword at the olc> prompt (typing help gives useful information) athena% olc_answers There is a Web version of the stock answers See also: olh, sendbug
Title and description: olh Description: online Athena-specific information system, accessed via Web browser To run: athena% help go to the olh Web page See also: olc, man, olta, sendbug
Title and description: sendbug Description: bug reporting system for Athena software. Prompts will guide you through questions to answer concerning the problem. Please be as detailed and specific as possible. Giving exact keystroke sequences that will reproduce the problem is particularly helpful and may hasten resolution. To run: athena% sendbug See also: olh, olc
Title and description: tellme Description: tells Athena root password, Athena cluster combination To run: athena% tellme root (for root password) athena% tellme combo (for Athena cluster combination)
Title and description: whichlocker Description: tells which Athena locker a program is in To run: athena% add outland athena% whichlocker program See also: lookup Note: whichlocker will not find programs that are not in lockers but are in the Athena release instead. Currently the information database is maintained manually and may contain omissions, inaccuracies and be out of date. It is still a quite useful utility however
MIT Information |
Title and description: Course Descriptions & Schedules To run: go to the Subject Listings & Schedule page
Title and description: cview, xcluster Description: monitors current cluster usage. cview uses a TTY interface; xcluster uses a campus map and an X interface To run: athena% cview (for a TTY interface) athena% cview printers (for printer information) athena% cview phones (for cluster phone numbers) athena% xcluster & (for an X interface)
Title and description: dash Description: places a hierarchical menu bar at the top of the screen; some entries are informational; others launch Athena applications To run: athena% dash See also: olh, olc Note: in pre-Athena 9.0 releases, or if you log in with the "dash interface" option. dash is normally already running. In Athena 9.0 and later, the GNOME interface menus perform the same function as dash
Title and description: Humanities Lottery Description: runs lottery for Humanities class sections To run: go to the information guide
Title and description: Freshman Housing Lottery Description: runs freshman housing lottery To run: go to the lottery page; if you don't have a certificate which is needed get one here
Title and description: Phys. Ed. Lottery Description: runs lottery for Physical Education class sections To run: go to the Phys. Ed. lottery page
Title and description: SIS Description: Student Information Service, which allows students to access their grades, register and access other academic information To run: go to the SIS Web page
Title and description: xmitdir Description: X interface to the online MIT directory, providing information from the Registrar's Office and the Personnel Office To run: athena% add mitdir athena% xmitdir & go to the Web version
MIT Information |
Title and description: Course Descriptions & Schedules To run: go to the Subject Listings & Schedule page
Title and description: cview, xcluster Description: monitors current cluster usage. cview uses a TTY interface; xcluster uses a campus map and an X interface To run: athena% cview (for a TTY interface) athena% cview printers (for printer information) athena% cview phones (for cluster phone numbers) athena% xcluster & (for an X interface)
Title and description: dash Description: places a hierarchical menu bar at the top of the screen; some entries are informational; others launch Athena applications To run: athena% dash See also: olh, olc Note: in pre-Athena 9.0 releases, or if you log in with the "dash interface" option. dash is normally already running. In Athena 9.0 and later, the GNOME interface menus perform the same function as dash
Title and description: Humanities Lottery Description: runs lottery for Humanities class sections To run: go to the information guide
Title and description: Freshman Housing Lottery Description: runs freshman housing lottery To run: go to the lottery page; if you don't have a certificate which is needed get one here
Title and description: Phys. Ed. Lottery Description: runs lottery for Physical Education class sections To run: go to the Phys. Ed. lottery page
Title and description: SIS Description: Student Information Service, which allows students to access their grades, register and access other academic information To run: go to the SIS Web page
Title and description: xmitdir Description: X interface to the online MIT directory, providing information from the Registrar's Office and the Personnel Office To run: athena% add mitdir athena% xmitdir & go to the Web version
MIT Library Reference |
Title and description: First Search Description: access to selected commercial bibliographic databases Go to the MIT Libraries' VERA page (follow Provider Search, pick FirstSearch) (MIT only)
Title and description: Net Entrez Description: allows users to search Genbank and other molecular sequencing databases To run: athena% add entrez athena% entrez & (for 7.50 release) athena% entrez2 & (for 9.00 release) athena% Cn3D & (to run Cn3D viewer) go to the Entrez Web page; Cn3D information is here See also: babel, Deep VIew, molscript, rasmol, VMD Note: Cn3D can be used as a Netscape helper application to view molecule description files in NCBI ASN.1 format. In order to configure it (Navigator 4.x), select Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator Applications, pick New, and enter: Description: NCBI ASN.1 MIMEType: chemical/ncbi-asn1-binary Suffixes: val Handled by Application: /afs/athena/software/entrez/bin/Cn3D %s it can be configured for Mozilla in similar fashion
Title and description: owl Description: Online With Libraries: enables users to electronically ask questions of MIT librarians To run: go to the Ask Us! Web page See also: olc under Athena Help Note: this service was formerly available by running the owl application but is now only available on the Web
Reference Materials |
Title and description: Encyclopedia Britannica To run: go to the Britannica Web page, or use this alternate entry point. There is also the Merriam-Webster online dictionary and thesaurus
Title and description: Oxford English Dictionary To run: go to the OED Web page (MIT only); there is also the Merriam-Webster online dictionary and thesaurus See also: oed Note: the oed text-mode client is similar to, but not as sophisticated as the former ox2 text OED client that is no longer available
Title and description: oed Description: text-mode client for accessing the Oxford English Dictionary To run: athena% add outland athena% oed word athena% oed "prefix*" (wildcards allowed if string is enclosed in double quotes) See also: Oxford English Dictionary
Title and description: Shakespeare Description: ASCII text versions of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets To run: athena% add shakespeare The files are below /mit/shakespeare or go to The Tech or elsewhere for hypertext versions with glossary and search capabilities
Title and description: thesaurus, xthesaurus Description: a simple online thesaurus To run: athena% add sipb athena% thesaurus athena% thesaurus word athena% xthesaurus & (X interface; left-click on window that opens for instructions) There is also the Merriam-Webster online dictionary and thesaurus See also: Wordnet
Title and description: webster, xwebster (dictionary) Description: simple TTY-interface dictionary lookup To run: athena% add sipb athena% webster word athena% xwebster & (X interface; left-click on window that opens for instructions) There is also the Merriam-Webster online dictionary and thesaurus See also: thesaurus, Oxford English Dictionary, Wordnet
Title and description: Wordnet Description: Wordnet is a lexicographical database from Princeton University that most closely resembles a thesaurus, although it also has features of a dictionary and even an encyclopedia, and some unique ones that are best experienced by trying it out To run: athena% add wordnet athena% wnb (for an X interface) athena% wn (for a TTY interface - lists command-line options) athena% wn option word go to the Wordnet Web page See also: thesaurus, Webster Dictionary
Internet Exploration |
Title and description: Amaya Description: developed by the W3C, Amaya is a complete web browsing and authoring environment and comes equipped with a "WYSIWYG style" of interface, similar to that of the most popular commercial browsers. With such an interface, users can easily generate HTML and XHTML pages, as well as CSS style sheets, MathML expressions, and SVG drawings (full support of SVG is not yet available, though) To run: athena% add amaya athena% amaya & There is a W3C Amaya page See also: konqueror, HoTMetaL Pro, lynx, Mosaic, mozilla, Mozilla Composer, netscape, opera, Star Office HTML Editor
Title and description: iexplorer (Internet Explorer) Description: UNIX version of Microsoft's Web browser To run: athena% add outland athena% iexplorer & See also: konqueror, lynx, Mosaic, mozilla, netscape, opera, Star Office Web Browser, weblint Note: iexplorer will run on Solaris 2.8/Athena 9.0 machines in spite of the warning message that this platform is unsupported
Title and description: konqueror Description: Web browser, graphical file manager and file viewer, based on KDE desktop environment To run: athena% add kde athena% konqueror There is a konqueror Web site See also: Amaya, iexplorer, Mosaic, mozilla, netscape, opera, weblint Note: output is very verbose; you may want to dedicate the launch window to running it; on exit, processes related to it may take several minutes to terminate
Title and description: lynx Description: text-only Web browser for vt-100 capable clients. Usable over dialup To run: athena% add infoagents athena% lynx See also: Amaya, iexplorer, Mosaic, mozilla, netscape, weblint, w3m
Title and description: Mosaic (old application- will most likely not be updated) Description: original Web browser developed at NCSA; due to its age, does not fully support newer html elements, particularly pages with frames To run: athena% add sipb athena% Mosaic & See also: Amaya, iexplorer, konqueror, lynx, mozilla, netscape, opera, Star Office Web Browser, weblint
Title and description: mozilla Description: default Athena Web browser; shared development process with recent releases of Netscape (6.x and later) To run: athena% mozilla & (or click on WWW button on Gnome applet bar) Mozilla's mail client can now be configured to interface to Athena mail via IMAP- this can be done in mozilla on or off Athena, installed on any machine anywhere in the world There are newsgroup lists on the Web that have active links that will automatically invoke Mozilla's news reader. Some other information about News and newsgroup lists is here For running Java applets in Web browsers, see Web browser Java plugin issues See also: Amaya, iexplorer, konqueror, lynx, Mosaic, netscape, Mozilla mail client,, Netscape Messenger, opera, pine, weblint, w3m Note: for secure transactions you need an MIT certificate. Information about getting one is here
Title and description: netscape Description: general-purpose Web browser. Incorporates a number of proprietary HTML extensions and Java support. Also incorporates a news reader that can be automatically invoked by links to news groups on the Web To run: athena% netscape & (default release 4.78) To run other releases: athena% add infoagents athena% netscape-4.75 & (release 4.75, Sun) There is a local Web page Netscape's Messenger mail client can now be configured to interface to Athena mail via IMAP- this can be done in Netscape on or off Athena, installed on any machine anywhere in the world- configuration instructions are here There are newsgroup lists on the Web that have active links that will automatically invoke Netscape's news reader. Some other information about News and newsgroup lists is here For running Java applets in Web browsers, see Web browser Java plugin issues See also: Amaya, iexplorer, konqueror, lynx, Mosaic, mozilla, Netscape Messenger, opera, pine, weblint, w3m Note: netscape was formerly accessed from the infoagents locker and can still be accessed from there. It was moved to the local hard drive to reduce startup time in Athena 8.4
Title and description: opera Description: general-purpose Web browser To run: athena% add opera athena% opera & The opera development site is here See also: Amaya, iexplorer, konqueror, Mosaic, mozilla, netscape, weblint, w3m Note: the Sun version is a beta and is likely to have more bugs than the Linux version
Title and description: weblint Description: utility for checking validity and style of HTML pages To run: athena% add infoagents athena% weblint file(s).html athena% weblint directory(ies) athena% weblint URL The second form will recurse through listed directories, checking any HTML pages found The third form will check the page at the given URL For Web-based validators see the World Wide Web Consortium's validator and NetMechanic See also: konqueror, lynx, mozilla, netscape, opera, w3m
Title and description: w3m Description: text-based Web browser; can display graphics, tables and frames To run: athena% add sipb athena% w3m URL See also: lynx, mozilla, netscape, opera, weblint

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