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HELP *SHELLSUMM Tom Khabaza, October 1986. A summary of common "shell" commands; for all users of Poplog on UNIX (who will be using the "cshell"), these are typed to the "% " prompt. If you do not understand the meaning of '*' see HELP HELP for an explanation, that is do: <ENTER> HELP HELP <RETURN> All of the commands in this file have more detailed explanations in the UNIX manual, see HELP *MAN for detail of how to view the on-line manual. See HELP *SHELL for more details on the SHELL General Unix Commands: cat List the contents of a file to the terminal cd Change to a different working directory, see *CD cp Copy a file, see *SHELL / MOVING date Print the date and time lpr Print a file on the line printer, *SHELL / PRINTING, *PRINTING lprm Remove a file from the lp, see *SHELL / PRINTING, *PRINTING lpq Show the queue of the lp, see *SHELL / PRINTING, *PRINTING logout Log out, see *SHELL / RECOGNISING ls List the names of files, see *SHELL / LISTING, * LS mail Read or send mail, see *SHELL / SENDING man See the Unix manual entry for a Unix command mkdir Make a new directory, see more List the contents of a file page by page see man more mv Move (or rename) a file, see *SHELL / MOVING passwd Change your password, see *SHELL / PASSWORDS pwd Show the name of the current working directory rm Remove files, see *SHELL / DELETING rmdir Remove a directory who Who is on the system POPLOG related commands: teach Call up ved with a TEACH file help Call up ved with a HELP file ved Call up ved (without Prolog or Clisp) pop11 Call up POP-11, see *SHELL / RECOGNISING prolog Call up Poplog, see *SHELL / RECOGNISING clisp Call up Lisp, see *SHELL / RECOGNISING See also * SHELL - more detailed explanations of these commands and SHELL * UNIX - information about the interface between Poplog and Unix * SYSUTIL - detailed information about the interface between Poplog and Unix -----<Copyright University of Sussex 1987. All rights reserved.>-------