Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München Computing and Networking Group

Hints on using AIX at the MPI

• acegr - a simple plotting tool
• dvips - convert a TeX DVI file to PostScript
• elm - an interactive mail system
• emacs - GNU Emacs Manual
• gzip - GNU Compression utilities
• IBM LoadLeveler - a facility for executing batch jobs on UNIX Workstations
• latex - intensional text formatting and typesetting
• Perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
• pine - read and send electronic mail with an easy user interface. See also Pine User's Guide and Pine - Short Introduction. there's also a link to the Pine Information Center
• psutils - Postscript utilities
• qup - Change Status of Printerqueues
• rq - Execute cancel/up commands on remote queues.
• slitex - make LaTeX slides
• shells - available shells
• SHIFT - CERN's SHIFT software
• tex - text formatting and typesetting
• user_mount - remount filesystems
• xdvi - DVI Previewer for the X Window System
• xfig - Facility for Interactive Generation of figures under X11
• xprint - special processing of printfiles