/afs/sipb.mit.edu/contrib/sipb
, and allow you to
quickly run programs without needing to know exactly where they are
located.
add
command. This will attach the locker and 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 your .environment
file in your
home directory to add lockers automatically when you log in. For example:
add 6.001 sipb outland gnu
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.
If you want to use a locker without attaching it, you can use
~lockername
to refer to it in a path. If you wanted to
browse the 6.001
locker, for example, you could type
athena% cd ~6.001
to change directories into the 6.001
locker. (Note that there are a few cases where this does not work.
In these cases, you can use ~~lockername
instead.)
Finally, if you want to run a program without adding the locker, you
can use the athrun
command. To run mplayer
as in the original example, you could type:
athena% athrun outland mplayer
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 NT, sgi, sun4, and linux
man programname
after adding the appropriate
locker.
Thewhats
program expands many acronyms, including MIT acronyms. If you have an expansion from an acronym that isn't included, you can submit it through the whats program, or through e-mail to sipb-whats.athena% whats pcmcia PCMCIA - People Can't Memorize Computer Industries Acronyms (slang) PCMCIA - Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (org.)
rolodex
is a repository of phone numbers. You can search by name, topic, or phone number.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% rolodex 617-555-7890 617-555-7890 BOSTON, MA (CMBRMA012GT) BELL ATLANTIC NE
Thedict
program looks up the definition of a word from several dictionaries served from dict.org. As of this writing, these dictionaries are Elements database, Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, WordNet, U.S. Gazetteer, Jargon File, The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, Easton's Bible Dictionary, Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary, CIA World Factbook, and Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms
athena% dict sipb 1 definition found From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]: SIPB Student Information Processing Board, {MIT}. {(http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/r/e/rei/WWW/GAME/sipbroom.html)}.
thesaurus
gives synonyms for words, as you'd expect it to. You can also run this program asth
.athena% thesaurus freshman ***** Word: freshman #541. Learner.-- N. learner, scholar, student, pupil; apprentice, prentice; articled clerk; beginner, tyro, abecedarian, alphabetarian; alumnus, eleve. recruit, novice, neophyte, inceptor, catechumen, probationer; chela, fellow-commoner; debutant. schoolboy; fresh, freshman; junior soph, junior; senior soph, senior; sophister, sophomore; questionist. undergraduate. class, form, remove; pupilage &c (learning) 539. disciple, follower, apostle, proselyte; fellow-student, condisciple. Adj. in statu pupillari, in leading strings.
weather
looks up the weather for the selected city. The-l
flag will give the forecast instead of the current conditions.athena% weather bos Conditions at KBOS on 10/2/2005 at 6:54 PM EDT (22:54 UTC) Weather: Mostly Clear Temp: 57 F (14 C) Humidity: 88% Dewpoint: 54 F (12 C) Visibility: 10 mi Barometer: 30.39 inHg Wind: NE 6 mph athena% weather -f bos [...] Tonight: Clear. Lows in the mid 50's. Southeast winds around 5 mph, becoming west after midnight. Monday: Sunny. Highs in the mid 70's. East winds 5 to 10 mph. [...]