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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
Your IMAP Mail
Evolution and Pine
Other Mail Readers
Using MH Folders
EXMH
The Discuss Bulletin Board System
Usenet
Instant Messaging at MIT: Zephyr et al
What is Zephyr?
How do I send a message?
How do I ``subscribe'' to these ``instances'' and ``classes''?
Zephyr Logs.
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 other IM clients are available on Athena?
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
Kerberos
: Athena's Watchdog
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
Acknowledgments and other randomness
About this document ...
Geoffrey Thomas
2009-06-14