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[Kevin M Cunningham: Revised prototype_user Files]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Aug 5 13:50:43 1991
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 91 13:50:50 -0400
To: testers-mtg@menelaus.local, bug-tracker@MIT.EDU
From: Richard Basch <basch@MIT.EDU>
Already installed...
Just adding it to the record...
-R
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From: kcunning@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: ezra@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, mar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: kcunning@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, lwvanels@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, cavan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Revised prototype_user Files
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 91 13:03:48 EDT
Here is the contents I promised for the prototype_user files.
The change in README.mail addresses the name of the Email doc.
The change in the welcome file addresses the demise of "Project Athena"...
Mark also suggested that there was yet a third place where these files might
appear, related to new accounts, but I don't know where that is...
--Kevin
/usr/prototype_user/README.mail and
/usr/athena/lib/prototype_tmpuser/README.mail:
Athena does not support the traditional ``mail'' command. Please refer to the
document "Electronic Mail on Athena". This document is available in hardcopy
for reference in each public cluster and for purchase at Graphic Arts Quick
Copy Centers in the basements of Building 11 and W20. This document is also
available on line: type "help" then select the topic "Communicating with Other
Users" then "Electronic Mail".
/usr/prototype_user/welcome and
/usr/athena/lib/prototype_tmpuser/welcome:
Welcome to Athena
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- Project Athena was an eight-year experiment (1983-1991) to explore the use
of computers in university educational programs. The Project focused on
developing computers as useful tools, rather than as objects of study, in
the education of students at MIT.
- The Athena system, one of the fruits of Project Athena, is a campus-wide
distributed computer service consisting of hundreds of networked
workstations and related facilities (such as printers and file servers)
available to MIT students and faculty to help them achieve their academic
goals and learn about computers while at the Institute.
- For help about any aspect of Athena, type: help followed by a carriage
return. This calls the On-Line Help system (OLH), a menu browser that
helps you find information about many Athena topics. (If a topic is not
described in detail, OLH usually provides information on where to find out
more about the topic.) OLH includes:
- guides to all aspects of the supported Athena environment, including
how to get an account, how to login and logout, how to work with the
UNIX operating system, and how to use some of the most popular
software on Athena (including software that can help you use Athena
to write papers or analyze data)
- up-to-date status information on the Athena system, available Athena
minicourses, and other current events at Athena
- consultants' stock answers to commonly asked questions about Athena
- a complete set of standard UNIX reference modules ("man pages")
- If you have trouble, you can contact an Athena User Consultant. To get a
consultant on-line, just type: olc followed by a carriage return. To
talk to a consultant in person, call X3-4435 (if there is no consultant on
duty, you will get a recording informing you of the consulting schedule).
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