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...meet the increasing demand, Harvard spent $300,000 this summer to purchase new Digital servers--the UNIX machines users log into to use Pine--including a new FAS machine and a new mail server...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: E-Mail Problems Plague Campus | 12/5/1996 | See Source »

...curious to see exactly how your packets are getting from place to place, use a traceroute utility. To track the way packets go from a Harvard Unix system, just type traceroute followed by the name of the computer in question at the prompt. Or download a traceroute utility from a Web site like shareware.com to test the paths from your desktop computer itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: techTalk | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...sign is what's known as a "command prompt." When you type pine and press the Enter key, you're simply telling fas to run an Internet e-mail program called pine. But fas and all of Harvard's Unix systems have dozens of other programs just waiting to be called...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: tech TALK | 11/12/1996 | See Source »

Once you've tracked down a person's contact information, you can use fas% to see if they're logged on. Unix has a popular command known as finger that lets you find out when and where a user last logged on. To check on Jane Radcliffe, for instance, you'd type finger jradclif at the fas%. To find out more about the user, add a space and the letters -1 after the jradclif, in this case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: tech TALK | 11/12/1996 | See Source »

...CHATeau can run on Macintoshes, UNIX computers, and Windows-based PCs. The software can be downloaded for free from Hoffer`s homepage at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hoffer.

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Student Creates Harvard 'Net Chat Line | 10/31/1996 | See Source »

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