Tricks in Using the Net

Emacs

• emacs Your Editor: Why
• Emacs Survival Guide, by Professor Ehrlich
• ADVANCED Emacs
• Word Wrap in Emacs

File Transfers

• File Transporting
• FTP: Moving files from unix to a disk
• Procomm:Upload/Download Files

Finding Files

• Finding Files: head command

Graphics Files

• GIF:Decoding Graphics Files
• Doug Holtsinger, Beginner's Guide to GIFs

HTML Tricks

• HTML: Steve's Crib Sheet
• Creating Your Own Home Page

See also NCSA's A Beginners Guide to Web Page Design

Introduction to web publication.

Mail Tricks

• Pine
• Getting Started with Pine

See also Pine in detail
• Pico Basics
• MM
• Dealing With a Cluttered Mailbox
• Finding Old Mail You Wrote
• Address lists
• Setting column for autowrap
• Customizing your mail
• Saving what you mail
• When Mailboxes Overflow
• How to get messages that are on file
• How to correct errors in your email
• Moving Massive Amt. of Data
• Several Commands in One
• Separating Your Mail from Mine, and Printing
• Routing your mail to CompuServe, Prodigy, AOL, or other email accounts
• Requesting an Automatic Return Receipt
• Running 'ls' and other unix commands as a shell within mm

LISTSERV help

• Reference Card

Help with Printing

• From RUCS labs

Tricks with nn

• Getting a clean slate
• Creating your own News Collections
• Customizing Your nn
• Finding a Group You Want
• Finding Old Messages Posted to nn
• Saving what you post on nn
• Saving what others post on nn
• Grabbing all messages on the same subject
• Posting/Replying
• Getting the latest nn group list
• Searching even within the messages
• Controlling what you read first
• Creating Signature Files

Tricks with Screencaptures

• Screen Captures
• Capturing a Session in a File

Tricks with Unix

• ls (even as a shell within mm)
• Running Programs in Absentia
• Killing a process :
• Opening two accounts at once from home
• Capturing a Session in a File
• Change your password
• (Un)Protecting Your Files
• grep:Finding Things
• Number of Lines Per Screen
• Renaming a directory
• Suspending a Program