| 1 | ******* NEEDS REVISION ******* |
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| 3 | Welcome to Project Athena |
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| 4 | -------------------------- |
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| 5 | - Project Athena is an eight-year experiment to explore the use of |
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| 6 | computers in university educational programs. Initiated in May 1983, |
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| 7 | the project develops computers as useful tools, rather than objects of |
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| 8 | study, in the education of students at MIT. |
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| 10 | - Project Athena seeks to support as much of the MIT student and faculty |
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| 11 | population as possible in a campus-wide distributed service networked |
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| 12 | workstation environment. |
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| 13 | |
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| 14 | - Project Athena has prepared a set of files, containing information on many |
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| 15 | Athena topics. The files provide up to date status information on the |
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| 16 | Athena system, summaries of Athena features, as well as instructions |
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| 17 | for learning more about them. This set of files is kept in a directory |
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| 18 | named `info'. |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | Type the following lines (where [CR] means `Hit the RETURN key') to |
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| 21 | learn more about what these files contain and how to read them: |
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| 22 | |
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| 23 | attach info [CR] |
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| 24 | more /mit/info/README [CR] |
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| 25 | |
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| 26 | - If you have trouble, call X3-4435 to talk to an Athena User Consultant. |
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| 27 | If there is no consultant on duty, you will get a recording informing you |
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| 28 | of the consulting schedule. |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | - Documentation is available on line. In addition, there are reference copies |
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| 31 | in the clusters and copies can be purchased at the Graphic Arts Quick Copy |
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| 32 | Centers: 11-004 and W20-028. Start with the "Essential" series and the |
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| 33 | documentation catalog. |
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| 34 | |
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| 35 | - To access on-line documentation, just type: help followed by a carriage |
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| 36 | return. The On-Line Help system incorporates lots of information about |
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| 37 | Athena in a menu-based hierarchy that is easy to browse. |
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| 38 | |
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| 39 | - Type: man <program name> followed by a carriage return to view online |
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| 40 | manual pages for commands. For example, type: man ls to find out |
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| 41 | how to list your files. Use man to see the manual pages for other |
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| 42 | useful commands like: emacs, apropos, and more. |
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| 44 | ---------- |
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