First encounter

• ``How to reboot MathLAN workstations''
• ``Logging in and out''
• ``The front panel''
• ``Unix, GNU, Linux, Red Hat, X Windows, Sawfish, and GNOME''
• ``GNOME quick start''

Mathematical software

Macaulay 2

• ``Macaulay 2: user's guide''
• ``Macaulay 2: reference manual''

MAGMA

• ``First steps in Magma''
• ``MAGMA''

Maple

• ``Maple quick reference''

MATLAB

• ``Brief introduction to MATLAB graphing programs''
• ``An introduction to MATLAB for Math 215''
• ``MATLAB help desk''

XLISP-STAT

• ``XLISP-STAT: a statistical environment based on the XLISP language''

Editing and word processing

• ``XEmacs: the basics''
• ``XEmacs quick reference''
• ``Getting started with TeX and LaTeX''
• ``A gentle introduction to TeX, a manual for self-study''
• ``The not so short introduction to LaTeX2e (or, LaTeX2e in 87 minutes)''
• ``TransFig: Portable figures for LaTeX''

Viewing and printing

• ``Introduction to Ghostscript''
• ``Introduction to Acrobat Reader''
• ``Setting the Mozilla browser for various applications''
• ``Printing with a2ps''

The Internet

E-mail

• ``Exmh: the basics''
• ``MH for exmh users''
• ``Getting started with email using Pine''
• ``The Elm users guide: a painless introduction to electronic mail using the Elm mail system''
• ``The Mutt e-mail client''

Authentication and remote services

• ``OpenSSH and Kerberos''
• ``The moron's guide to Kerberos'' (version 1.2.2)
• ``OpenSSH FAQ''

Programming

C and C++

• ``Using and porting the GNU compiler collection''

Common Lisp

• ``Common Lisp HyperSpec''

FORTRAN

• ``Using and porting GNU Fortran''

Haskell

• ``The Hugs98 user manual''

Icon

• ``A brief introduction to Icon''

Java

• ``Advanced programming for the Java(TM) 2 platform''
• ``Essentials of the Java(TM) programming language:a hands-on guide, part 1''
• ``Essentials of the Java(TM) programming language:a hands-on guide, part 2''
• The Java tutorial

ML

• ``Programming in Standard ML''
• ``Using the SML/NJ system''

Pascal

• ``The GNU Pascal manual''

Perl

• ``www.perl.com - Documentation''

Prolog

• ``GNU Prolog: a native Prolog compiler with constraint solving over domains''

Python

• ``Extending and embedding the Python interpreter''
• ``Python library reference''
• ``Python reference manual''
• ``Python tutorial''

Scheme

Chez Scheme

• Chez Scheme user's guide
• The Scheme programming language

DrScheme

• ``Inside PLT MzScheme''
• ``Pattern matching for Scheme''
• ``PLT DrScheme: programming environment manual''
• ``PLT framework: GUI application framework''
• ``PLT help desk''
• ``PLT miscellaneous libraries: reference manual''
• ``PLT MrEd: graphical toolbox manual''
• ``PLT MrSpidey: static debugger manual''
• ``PLT mzc: MzScheme compiler manual''
• ``PLT MzScheme: language manual''
• ``PLT tools: DrScheme extension manual''

Elk

• ``Elk/Xlib reference manual''
• ``Elk/Xt reference manual''
• ``Reference manual for the Elk bitstring extension''
• ``Reference manual for the Elk extension language interpreter''
• ``Reference manual for the Elk record extension''
• ``Reference manual for the Elk Unix extension''

Guile

• ``Tutorial introduction to Guile''

SCM

• ``SCM: Scheme implementation''
• ``SLIB''

Scheme 48

• ``The incomplete Scheme 48 reference manual for release 0.57''

Graphics

• ``GIMP documentation: Tutorials''
• ``ImageMagick - image processing and display package''
• ``Xfig user manual''

Miscellaneous tools

• ``Files and directories under Linux''
• ``The FreeType 2.0 tutorial''
• ``Glimpse: a tool to search through entire file systems''
• ``GNOME user's guide''
• ``The GNU privacy handbook
• ``MySQL manual''
• ``Ph directory services''
• ``Preferences for the GNOME terminal emulator''
• ``zlib general purpose compression library version 1.1.3''

created August 11, 1995
last revised October 9, 2001

John David Stone (stone@cs.grinnell.edu)