The Board has written several introductory documents, all of which are given free to users who need them.
An Inessential Quick Reference to Athena is a one sheet manual that contains the least you need to know to use Athena. For more detail, see Getting Started on Athena, available at Graphic Arts for free.
The Inessential Guide to Athena provides a catalog of the less-publicized commands and capabilities of the Athena system of people who have learned the basics of Unix. This document is for more experienced Unix users. Beginners should refer to An Essential Guide to Athena.
Inessential L ATEX is a short guide to the more commonly used features of this typesetting system. Currently, LATEX is one of the two supported text-processing systems, and the only one both powerfull and stable enough for thesis work. Athena itself provides several documents on LATEX through Graphic Arts, and full manuals are available in the office.
Netnews: A One-Page Guide to the Usenet is intended to provide the absolute minimum information required to keep things working smoothly for users of the Usenet. For more details, you should see the newsgroup news.announce.newusers.
How to Use Xdvi is a short guide to using the program xdvi, which can be used to view DVI files such as those produced by LATEX.
Discuss - Using Discuss is a guide to using Discuss, a networked electronic conferencing system. For more details, see the office manual under em Discuss.
Inessential AFS describes the Andrew File System and how it is used. AFS is a network file system or a distributed file system. This means that the files you gain access to through AFS do not actually reside on the workstation you are using.