Introduction to Unix & SDF

Gene Michael Stover

created Saturday, 2003 December 6 December
updated Sunday, 2005 May 8

Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005 by Gene Michael Stover. All rights reserved. Permission to copy, store, & view this document unmodified & in its entirety is granted.

• Contents
• 1. To Do
• 2. Introduction
  • 2.1 What to read first
    
• 3. What is Unix?
  • 3.1 Short Answer
  • 3.2 Long Answer
    • 3.2.1 My Opinion
    • 3.2.2 Another Opinion
      
• 4. Some Basic Commands
  • 4.1 The Command Line Shell
  • 4.2 Listing Files
  • 4.3 Moving Around the File System
  • 4.4 The VI Cursor Commands
  • 4.5 E-mail
    • 4.5.1 mutt
    • 4.5.2 Graphical E-mail Readers
    • 4.5.3 My Own E-mail
  • 4.6 Viewing Files
  • 4.7 Surf the Web
  • 4.8 Upload & Download
    • 4.8.1 FTP
    • 4.8.2 scp
    • 4.8.3 rcp
    • 4.8.4 When FTP Doesn't Work
  • 4.9 Editing Files
    
• 5. Learning More
  • 5.1 The Man
    • 5.1.1 The man is for real
  • 5.2 Gnu info
  • 5.3 Books
  • 5.4 Folklore
    
• 6. Super Dimension Fortress
  • 6.1 Getting Information on SDF
  • 6.2 COM Mode
    • 6.2.1 COM Commands Discussion
    • 6.2.2 COM Session Example
    • 6.2.3 What to Do if You Are Caught in the Newbie Loop
    • 6.2.4 COM History
  • 6.3 Bulletin Board
    
• 7. Programming
  • 7.1 Language
  • 7.2 Languages on SDF
  • 7.3 Theory
    
• 8. Hacking
• 9. Meta
• Bibliography