Exceed 9/10 for UD

Customizing Your UNIX Account on the UD Composer Systems


The online version of this document is maintained at:

http://www.udel.edu/topics/connect/sw/exceed/docs-9/UD-Exceed-UNIX-files.html

This document provides instructions for adding Exceed-specific configuration files to your central UNIX account (Copland, Mahler, Strauss) at the University of Delaware. These files may or may not work without modifications on other UNIX systems.

If you already have the Exceed-specific configurations files in your composers account from a previous installation of Exceed 6.2 or later, skip to the next document: How to Use Exceed. If you have never performed the procedure described below, or did it last for a version of Exceed prior to 6.2, continue with these instructions.

If you have made your own changes to the Exceed-specific files in your composers account, the script that you will invoke below will make backup copies of these files before installing the new ones. You will need to edit the new files to re-create these personalized settings.

Performing the Composers Customization

What this process accomplishes:

Copying the Exceed-specific files into your home directory on the central UNIX systems (Copland, Strauss, Mahler) will enhance Exceed's functionality for the central UNIX systems. Specific improvements include copy-and-paste capabilities between UNIX and Microsoft Windows applications, larger scroll buffers proper behavior of the backspace key in Xterm windows, and better default font choices.

This customization process should be done once by each Exceed user. It modifies files only in your composers account, not on your PC. To use these settings on departmental UNIX servers, consult with your departmental server administrator.

What you should do:

  1. Open an SSH (or telnet) session to copland.udel.edu (if you don't have an SSH client installed, we strongly recommend that you download an SSH client), and install it and start using it instead of telnet whenever possible.
  2. At the copland prompt, type the following command:
    /www/htdocs/topics/connect/sw/exceed/exceed-setup
    

What the customization actually does:

Depending on the files you have in your composers account, the system performs various parts of the following file processing:
  • Makes a backup-copy of your .xsession and .Xresources-exceed files, if they exist in your home directory.
  • Possibly renames your original .xsession file to be .xsession-ncd, provided you do not already have a file by that name. When you subsequently log onto a public NCD X-terminal, the .xsession-ncd file will be read and the X-terminal will behave exactly as before.
  • Copies a prototype .xsession file to your home directory. Commands in this file direct the system to perform different actions depending on whether you are logging in on an NCD X-terminal, Windows system, Mac system, etc.
  • Copies a prototype .Xresources-exceed file to your home directory. Commands in this file are only used when you use Exceed.
  • Creates UNIX aliases (user-defined commands) in your .alias file (and creates this file if you didn't already have one). For example, the alias "onstrauss" is created and can be used as a simple way to open an Xterm window to Strauss or to run application software on Strauss.

You are now ready to proceed to the next document: How to Use Exceed.


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Last revised: September 14, 2004