Linux
- Navigating Linux
- How can I get started using Linux?
- What basic commands should I know in order to begin using Linux?
- What are dotfiles? How can I customize my dotfiles?
- What Linux shells are supported at CAEN?
- How can I run an alternate shell in the CAEN environment, such as tcsh or bash?
- There is a large file named "core" in my home directory. Can I delete it?
- My backspace key does not function correctly. How do I fix this?
- How do I deal with file or directory names with spaces in them?
- How can I find a file if I can't remember which directory it is in?
- How can I set up a symbolic link to a directory? How do I remove it?
- How can I set the Linux prompt to show what directory I am in?
- How do I uncompress a file with the .gz extension?
- How do I extract the contents of a file with the .tar.Z or .tar.gz extension?
- Linux Workstations
- Are there dedicated, Linux-only hosts that I can log into remotely to run my programs/compute jobs?
- How can I find out which workstations are not being used?
- Every time I try to log into a Linux workstation, I immediately get logged out. What is wrong?
- What is rmproc and when can I use it? How do I remove remote processes running on my workstation?
- How do you access files that are located on a DOS floppy disk from a Linux workstation?
- How do I mount a CD disk on a Linux machine?
- How do I give people access to my CAEN-supported Linux workstation?
- I've been having difficulty looking at remote processes on my CAEN-supported Linux workstation with the rsh command. What can I do?
- How do I export the local file system of my CAEN-supported machine to be accessible from other machines?
- How can I select what Linux software version is my default?
- I tried starting Mozilla Firefox on a Linux computer and I received a message that it was already running, or that some process ID was using my session, and it is locked. How do I fix this?
- Does CAEN have a font server I can use with my X applications?
- How do I use the IMSL math library?
- Text Editors
- LaTeX
- How do I get started learning LaTeX?
- Where can I find the makeindex program to run on myfile.idx?
- I have to write papers in Spanish with LaTeX and I would really appreciate the ability to have the Spanish style (for the accents mainly). Where can I find this?
- I need to write large tables that span many pages. I tried the tabular environment but found it put everything on one page with most of the text going down below the physical page. Is there a way of doing this without breaking the large table into smaller ones that would fit onto one page?
- Is there a way of using the underline command in the cells of a table such that it doesn't overlap into the other cells if the underlined text is long?
- I find that LaTeX leaves too much space in the left and top margins of the table. Is it possible to center the table in the physical page?
- What packages and commands are available on CAEN workstations for including graphics files in LaTeX 2e documents. What formats are available to choose from for these graphics? How can I convert pics to an acceptable form?
- How do you insert postscript figures into a Latex2e document?
- I am planning to write my thesis using LaTeX. Could you tell me where I can get the Rackham LaTeX format for PhD thesis?
- I would like to take a figure I made in Canvas and place it in a Latex file. Is there more to it than saving the Canvas figure as a postscript file, transferring it, and reading it into the LaTeX file?
- I am having problems with rac.sty under LaTeX2e. It doesn't like the /startthechapters command.
- I have some .eps files from a scanner that I am trying to embed into a LaTeX file. The problem is that they contain a lot of white space and I can't easily edit the files to alter the bounding box. What can I do?
- How can I override the counter numbering of an equation in LaTeX? More precisely how do I number them, and then in the section number them differently for it and the appendix?
- I am running LaTeX for a report and need to have a reference in a caption of the table. How do I do that?
- I tried to create a box picture, and defined textwidth/height (16x21cm), and unitelength (0.333cm). Then I tried to create a box (45x60 UL) starting point is (0,0). I got error message that says "Overfull \hbox (...pts too wide} detected in line." What does this mean?
- When I run a program to create multibox in one page I had a message
- I am writing a paper using {article} style. I need to add one or two appendices to my document. I used the {\appendix} command but it did not give me a new set of numbering for my equations.
- I am having problems including FrameMaker postscript files in my LaTeX documents.
- I am having problems using the doublespace package?
- I am writing a paper and I need to have some of my figures in landscape format. I have the files to implement figures in LaTeX in regular format. I know that it is possible to change the format of my graph when I use ghostview, but this is not a good way and the quality is not good.
- I was hoping that LaTeX would resize the figure to fit into its document formatting. How can I fix this?
- All the plots and figures of a chapter are ending up at the end of the chapter. I want them to be in the middle of the chapter where they are refered to.
- I'm wondering if it's possible to change aspects of the documentstyle in the middle of the document. For example, what if I wanted to use documentstyle "onecolumn article" on page 1, and then change to "twocolumn article" on the subsequent pages? Is that possible?
- Is it possible to convert a LaTeX document into a FrameMaker or WordPerfect one. If yes, how can it be done?
- Scripting & Programming
