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An Inessential Guide to Athena
(
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The Student Information Processing Board
January 3, 2002
Contents
Purpose and Conventions
SIPB and
/mit/sipb
: who? what? when? where? why? how?
Reading Mail and Bulletin Boards On Athena
Evolution
Pine
Mutt
Mozilla
Gnus
Command Line MH
XMH
EXMH
The Discuss Bulletin Board System
Zephyr and IM: When you care enough to send the very best
What is Zephyr?
How do I send a message?
How do I send to more than one person?
How do I ``subscribe'' to these ``instances'' and ``classes''?
Aargh! I have three papers due tomorrow and everyone's zwriting me! Help!
How can I tell if someone's logged in?
How do I tell people I'm not at the terminal?
How do I customize Zephyr?
What is IM?
What IM clients are available on Athena?
Usenet: Talking to the world without paying long-distance bills
The Usenet...
Using
rn
on Athena.
Hints and tips
AFS
: The Andrew Filesystem
AFS
Volume? Why do I care how loud my files are?
How do I use
AFS
?
Authenticating to
AFS
File protections under
AFS
Where to go for more
Useful Lockers
Why
Kerberos
is needed.
Graphics on Athena
Quick Work
The GIMP
Moira
: Athena glue-all, or Your Fate
Things Not To Do
How to manage lists
Getting information through moira
What are you waiting for?
But wait! There's more
Accessing Athena Remotely
Why would I want to login to Athena remotely?
What is SSH?
OK, so where should I SSH to?
SSH clients
Forwarding mail
Web interfaces
Webmail
Browser dialup
Linux-Athena installer
Acknowledgments and other randomness
About this document ...
Omri Schwarz 2003-10-03