/afs/sipb.mit.edu/contrib/sipb, and allow you to
quickly run programs without needing to know exactly where they are
located.
The most common way to use a locker is to use the add
command. This will attach the locker — make it available
through /mit/lockername — and add the locker to
your path. For example, to run the mplayer program in the
outland locker, type:
athena% add outland
athena% mplayer
You can put a line in a text file called .environment
file in your home directory to add lockers automatically when you
log in. Programs such as pico (terminal-based) and
gedit (GUI) allow you to edit text files. For example,
you may add a line such as:
add 6.001 sipb outland matlab
The second way to use a locker is the attach command.
This will make a locker accessible at /mit/lockername the
same way add does, but will not add the locker to your
path.
| locker | contents |
| sipb | software supported by SIPB |
| outland | software less actively supported and maintained by SIPB |
| consult | Athena-related utilities maintained by OLC |
| gnu | common Unix utilities maintained by the Free Software Foundation |
| abiword | a fast-loading word processor |
| gnumeric | a fast-loading spreadsheet |
| ooffice | OpenOffice.org, an office suite |
| games | games and other fun utilities |
| im | IM programs, such as gaim |
| weather | the weather program |
| math, matlab, maple | Mathematica, Matlab, and Maple software, respectively |
athena% whichlocker mmblanche Locker software on Athena is maintained by many different people. Don't run this unless you know the maintainer can be trusted. "mmblanche" is in "consult" for linux, NT, and sun4
For more information about most of these programs, you can type
man programname after adding the appropriate
locker.
athena% whats sb SB - Science Baccalaureate (latin form of "Bachelors of Science")
athena% rolodex olc
3-4435 Athena Consulting Office (N42) (OLC)
athena% rolodex 3-7788
3-7788 Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) Office
athena% rolodex pizza
617-577-0066 Domino's Pizza
617-523-5575 Bel Canto (Boston)
[...]
athena% dict frosh
1 definition found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
frosh \frosh\, n.; pl. {frosh}. [from freshman by shortening.]
a student during his first year in a high school, college, or
university; a {freshman}. [informal]
[PJC]
A similar program is thesaurus in the sipb locker.
athena% weather boston
Conditions at KBOS on 8/27/2007 at 4:54 PM EDT (20:54 UTC)
Weather: Mostly Clear
Temp: 71 F (21.7 C)
Humidity: 68% Dewpoint: 60 F (15.6 C)
Visibility: 10 mi
Barometer: 30.14 inHg
Wind: E 8 mph
athena% weather -f bos
[...]
Wednesday: Sunny. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the mid 80's.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60's. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
[...]