Research

Research Computing: Set up

Detailed instructions on how to do some useful things:

• Setting things up the way you like (and changing your password) : How to change defaults to suit you.
• Writing your own shell files : Creating new commands that do things you want.
• Running programs in the background : How to do this, without hurting other users.
• Line editing : How to save typing in programs that support line editing.
• Using X-windows from home : How to set up an X-windows server on your home computer, or on a Windows machine connected to the local U of T network.