Using UNIX Systems

UNIX systems and software

The University of Delaware's central, general-purpose, Solaris (UNIX) systems—Copland and Strauss—are used for many academic activities including course work, text processing, and scholarly research. Copland is used for e-mail, newsgroups, and web browsing; Strauss is used for work that involves programming.

Faculty, staff and students can access the University's UNIX operating systems in any on-campus computing site or from your own computer, either on or off campus.

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UNIX: Using the central systems

This section catalogs UD-specific and vendor-supplied documentation. In addition, various UNIX commands and applications are documented online by their UNIX "man" (manual) pages. (Type man xxx on any system to learn about topic xxx.)

• Overview and getting started
• Overview
• Hardware specifications and software lists
• UNIX Groups
  • General information
  • Group access to web folders
• Configuring your UNIX account -- the "dotfiles"
• Chemistry applications
  • Gaussian (G03)
• Document production
  • Adobe Acrobat (AcroRead and Distill)
  • TeX/LaTeX basic instructions
  • Thesis and dissertation TeX/LaTeX templates
• E-mail
  • Pine mail
  • Creating and maintaining UNIX mailing lists
  • Configuring your UNIX account -- the "dotfiles"
• Engineering applications
  • Nastran
  • Patran
• File handling
  • Basic commands
  • SFTP: File transfer protocol software for copying files between systems
  • Editors
    • Pico
    • Vi
    • Xemacs
    • Emacs
  • Recovering deleted files
  • Compressing and uncompressing files
• GIS: Geographic Information Systems
  • General information (including documentation on ESRI software)
• Graphics
  • DI-3000 (Fortran-callable subroutine library)
  • PV-Wave
  • NCAR Graphics
  • GNUplot
• LINUX
  • LINUX Users' Group at UD
• Mathematics
  • FIDAP/GAMBIT: Finite element modeling
  • Gaussian (G03)
  • LINDO: Linear, INteger, Discrete Optimization (LP & mixed IP)
  • GAMS: Generalized Algebraic Modeling System (with MINOS and ZOOM)
  • Maple
  • Mathematica
  • Matlab
  • Nastran
  • Patran
• Numerical Libraries
  • CTT (IMSL)
  • NAG
  • LAPACK
• Online Documentation
  • Solaris OS and Sun-supported compilers and applications
• Printing
  • Printing on central UNIX printers
• Programming languages
  • Graphics Libraries
    • DI-3000 (Fortran-callable subroutine library)
    • NCAR Graphics
  • Java
  • Numerical libraries
    • CTT (IMSL)
    • NAG
    • LAPACK
  • Scheme - DrScheme
  • Sun Studio Integrated development environment for C++, C, Fortran 95, Fortran 90, and Fortran 77 applications
• Quotas on UNIX filesystems
  • General information
  • Requesting quota changes
• Scan Forms (optical mark response forms for surveys and tests)
  • Overview and procedures
  • Pink Scan Form
  • Brown Scan form
  • Teal Scan form
  • Test scoring form
    • ITEMAL: Item analysis for tests on optical scan forms
• Secure shell (SSH)
  • Instructions
  • Software download
• Site-licenses
  • UNIX-based software
• Statistical software
  • HLM
  • ITEMAL (Item analysis for tests on optical scan forms)
  • LIMDEP
  • Maple
  • Mathematica
  • Matlab
  • SAS
  • SPSS
  • STATA
  • TSP (Time Series Processor)
• Sun Microsystems-supplied documentation
  • Solaris OS and Sun-supported compilers and applications
• X Windows
  • Sun Ray Terminals at UD
  • Xming for Microsoft Windows

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Other resources

• UD's LINUX User Group
• UD's UNIX Administrators' User Group
• LearnIT@UD Training

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