VMS Users Guide
This manual is intended as a tutorial for new users of VMS computing
facilities at the Space Telescope Science Institute. It introduces the
hardware and software resources used to support both science and operations.
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CONTENTS
- CHAPTER 1: -
Preface
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- For the New User...
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- How to Use This Manual
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- Typographic Conventions
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- STScI VMS Computing Environment
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- User Support Services
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- CHAPTER 1: -
Getting
Started
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- Logging In...and Out
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- Security Issues
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- Tour of VMS for First-Time Users
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- Using the Online Help
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- Troubleshooting
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- CHAPTER 2: -
OpenVMS
Fundamentals
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- DCL
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- Key Terms
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- Batch Jobs
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- Defining Your Environment
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- Errors Messages and Problems
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- CHAPTER 3: -
The File
System
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- Files
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- The File Life Cycle
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- Directories
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- Managing Your Disk Space
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- File Attributes
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- Printing Files
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- CHAPTER 4: -
Editing
Files
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- DECTPU
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- Emacs
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- EDT
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- Language Sensitive Editor: LSE
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- Spell Checkers
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- Other Text Tools
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- CHAPTER 5: -
Document
Preparation
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- WordPerfect
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- DECwrite
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- LaTeX and TeX
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- CHAPTER 6: -
Motif and
X-Windows
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- Getting Started with Motif
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- Customizing Your Windows Environment
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- Window-Based Applications
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- Remote Windows
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- CHAPTER 7: -
Software
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- DECset
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- Programming Languages
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- Data Analysis Packages
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- Graphics
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- Libraries
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- Other Software and Utilities
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- CHAPTER 8: -
Communications
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- System Announcements
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- MAIL
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- News
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- Remote Sessions
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- File Transfer
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- Phone
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- CHAPTER 9: -
Information and
Resources
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- Phone Book
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- Lists
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- STEIS
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- Finding Resources
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- Acronyms
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- CHAPTER 10: -
Tape
Drives
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- About Magnetic Tape...
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- Using Tapes
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- CD ROMs
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- APPENDIX A: -
Quick References
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- APPENDIX B: -
Forms
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- VAX Computer Account Request: Science Clusters
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- VAX Computer Account Request: Operations Cluster
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- File Restore Request
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- How Can We Improve This Manual?
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- Security Policies
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- APPENDIX C: -
Glossary
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- Index
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