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Finding Software on OIT Unix Systems

There is no single definitive listing of software available on the OIT Unix systems. You would be better off defining your search better; what sort of software are you looking for? Are you looking for document processing, spreadsheets, communications packages, Internet services ... that's the place to start.

• One way to approach it is to use the online man command (for manual). All of the basic Unix command manual pages are online, as are many of the locally-installed packages. You can use:

      man  <COMMAND>
  

  to get information if you know the name of the command, or use a keyword search:

      man  -k  <KEYWORD>
  

  where <KEYWORD> is something related to the command (like folder for all the commands that deal with MH folders). A different way to do the same kind of search is to use the apropos command:

      apropos  <KEYWORD>
  

• If you are on the TerpConnect system (formerly WAM/Glue), another way to see what software is potentially available is to use the tap command. If you just type:

      tap
  

  you'll get a list of what software is affected by the tap command. This command customized your environment to use a particular software package; it adds directories to your current path, sets environment variables, etc. To be able to use a particular package, you tap it:

      tap  mathematica
  

  You'll receive information on recent changes, updates and any mailing lists, if any exist.