athena% tellme combotellme supports are tellme root, for the root
password, and tellme why.
/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.
SIPB's Debathena (
http://debathena.mit.edu/) eliminates the need for
attach -- whenever you
try to access (cd, ls, etc.) a locker
through /mit/lockername, it is automatically
mounted in the correct path there. Debathena is the
basis for the upcoming Athena 10 release, and you can install it on your own
Debian GNU/Linux or Ubuntu machine.
| 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% add outland
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.
whats (sipb locker) — expands acronyms
athena% whats sb SB - Science Baccalaureate (latin form of "Bachelors of Science")
rolodex (sipb locker) — phone number database
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)
[...]
dict (outland locker) — dictionary via dict.org
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.
weather (weather locker) — weather conditions or forecast
athena% weather boston
Conditions at KBOS on 10/5/2008 at 2:54 PM EDT (18:54 UTC)
Weather: Cloudy
Temp: 55 F (13 C)
Humidity: 63% Dewpoint: 43 F (6 C)
Visibility: 10 mi
Barometer: 30.25 inHg
Wind: S 5 mph
athena% weather -f bos
[...]
Wednesday and Wednesday night: Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
60's. Lows in the upper 40's.
Thursday: Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.
Thursday night: Cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the lower 50's. Chance of rain
30 percent.
[...]
pdftops (outland locker) — converts PDF files
to postscript (for printing)
athena% pdftops filename.pdf athena% lpr -h -Zduplex -Pprintername filename.ps
barnowl (barnowl locker) — Zephyr and IM client
athena% barnowl [launches barnowl]