SSC News, January, 1993
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Contents:
        UNIX Printer Queue Changes
        New SSC publications
        Terminal Room Closing
        TeX, LaTeX, SliTex, BibTeX....
        Ghostview installed on UNIX
        SSCWHO and BROADCAST now available on UNIX
        Bulletin for UNIX
        Requests for Software: "sysfolk@ssc.wisc.edu"
        Consulting question of the month

This is the SSC News.  This monthly electronic newsletter will keep you
informed about recent changes on the SSC computer networks.  We hope 
this new source of information will help improve communication between 
the SSC computing staff and all of you computer users out there.  

TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS NEWSLETTER, just type REPLY at the mail prompt 
and send us a message which says "unsubscribe".  We will remove you from 
the distribution list for future electronic mailings.  If you ever change 
your mind, just notify the SSC Consultant or send mail to SSCNEWS asking 
to get back on the list.

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UNIX Printer Queue Changes
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Recently we revamped our UNIX printer queues.  Six VMS print queues
are now available as remote printers to UNIX users.  The queues are:

    sscprint          irpprint
    single            double
    single_ps         double_ps

See UNIX bulletin for details about using these queues.

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New SSC publications
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Three new publications are available for SSC users:

   How to Restore deleted files
   How to set up VT320 terminals for using UNIX
   How to use the SSC laser printers

Tou can browse through all the "How-to" publications in a ring binder
in 2470 Social Science, then ask the Consultant for a copy of the one(s)
you want.

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Terminal Room Closing
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The terminal room, Social Science 2470 will be closed January 13, 1993
for prelims.  Consulting will still be available by mail.

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TeX, LaTeX, SliTex, BibTeX....
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TeX and many supporting binaries have been compiled on SunOS.  Here are
the newly available programs:

tex	The TeX text formatting and typesetting program
latex	The LaTeX macro package for TeX
slitex	A variant of LaTeX; it is used for making slides
bibtex	Creates a bibliography from TeX output
xdvi	A DVI (the output from TeX) previewer for X windows
dvips	Converts a TeX DVI file to PostScript

TeX capabilities and language are described in "The TeXbook" by Donald
E. Knuth, published by Addison-Wesley.  Another book is "TeX for the
Impatient" by Paul W. Abrahams, also published by Addison-Wesley.

The LaTeX language is described in "LaTeX - A Document Preparation
System" by Leslie Lamport, published by Addison-Wesley.  This book
includes appendices discussing SliTeX and BibTeX.

Each of these programs has an installed `man' page.

On ULTRIX, only tex, xdvi and dvips are available.  Latex, slitex and
bibtex are being worked on even as you read this.  Check `broadcast'
or `bull' for announcements of their availability.

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Ghostview installed on UNIX
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Ghostview, software that enables you to preview PostScript documents on 
your screen has been installed on UNIX.  The ghostview program provides 
an X11 user interface for the ghostscript interpreter.  Ghostview and 
ghostscript function as two cooperating programs.  Ghostview creates the  
viewing window and ghostscript draws in it.  To preview a document, type 

   ghostview filename

where filename is the name of the postscript file you want to preview.  
Refer to the man pages for complete documentation.

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SSCWHO and BROADCAST now available on UNIX
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SSCWHO is a locally-written and maintained program that gives you 
information on who is authorized for the unix network, their agency, and 
group affiliation.  To use SSCWHO, type

   sscwho pattern

where pattern can be a user name, part or all of a full name, or some 
other pattern.  Remember, UNIX is case sensitive so if you are searching 
for "Bart Simpson," say, you will need to type the uppercase "B" and "S".

You can also view the BROADCAST on the Unix side now by typing

   broadcast

In the past, the broadcast was only available on UNIX by typing 
"more /etc/motd".

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Bulletin for UNIX
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Bulletin has been compiled for SunOS, so all UNIX bulletin messages
are now available on all UNIX hosts.  To see the current messages, type
	bull
or
	bulletin

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Requests for Software: "sysfolk@ssc.wisc.edu"
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If there is a freeware program that you have heard about and would
like a system programmer to look into finding, compiling, installing,
etc.  -or- if there is some other *system programmer* need you may
have, please send UNIX mail to
	sysfolk
VMS users can send mail to
	eunice::sysfolk

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Consulting question of the month
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Lately, users have been sending mail to the operator asking that 
ROBINBATCH be opened.  This is a queue that is open ONLY at night.  It
automatically opens at 6 p.m. and closes at 6 a.m.  

This only applies to ROBINBATCH.