Computer Help Corner.

Frequently Asked Questions

• FAQ - Using Mathstat Unix machines

Editors

• vi reference
• emacs introduction
• emacs reference

TeX

• CTAN, the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (in German)
• Norm Walsh maintains Information on TeX including online help for TeX, LaTeX, BibTeX, MakeIndex and SliTex and CTAN-web, a www interface to the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
• The sunsite at Queens' is our nearest CTAN mirror
• Latex Help 1.1
• Usenet - comp.text.tex - Discussion about the TeX and LaTeX systems & macros.
• FAQ - comp.text.tex
• TeX to HTML converters
  • The Hyperlatex package
  • LaTex2HTML
• Windows dvi previewer
• ghostscript, a Windows postscript viewer
• PC-TeX, from Personal TeX, Inc.
• EMTEXGI: a (free) shell for emTeX and associated utilities on the Windows PC (either Windows 3.1, or Windows 95)

SAS

• SAS on Phoenix
• SAS Institute

Mathematica

• Wolfram Research

SPLUS

• Splus Tutorial at Dalhousie

Maple and Waterloo Software

• The Maple Share Library
• The Symbolic Computation Group at the University of Waterloo
• Waterloo Maple Software: Maple V, Theorist 2.0, MathEdge, Expressionist

Computers

• Internet Guides
  
  • Internet
  • A Tutorial covering basic use of windows, commands, electronic mail
  • Internet Survival Skills 101
  • Internet Survival
  • The Big Dummies Guide to the Internet
  • World Wide Web
• Unix - A Beginners Guide
  
• Unix - For the Intermediate User
  
• Hardware
• History
• Languages
• Multimedia
• Operating Systems
• PCs
• Software
• Security and Encryption@
• World Wide Web
• Windowing Systems@
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Z: Miscelleneaous FTP Sites/Software to download

• Department of Mathematics
• University of British Columbia