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MANUAL PAGES: On all UNIX computers you can use the man command to view the manual pages for most executables/commands. For example, 
newton>  man matlab
newton>  man cc
For other commands, you can type the option "-help" or "--help" to get succinct instructions, e.g., 
newton>  moon -help
newton>  psnup --help
If you don't know a Unix command but you know what you want it to do, you can fish for the name of the command using man -k with a keyword, e.g., 
newton>  man -k plotting
newton>  man -k fortran
newton>  man -k 'text editor'

see some selected man pages

by category

    Math, numerics, statistics, dynamical systems

  • math -- Mathematica   (mathbg)
  • mathematica -- Mathematica
  • maple, xmaple -- Maple (Sun workstations only)
  • matlab -- Matlab   (matlabbg)
  • idl -- Interactive Data Language
  • idlhelp -- Interactive Data Language
  • sas -- SAS (statistics)
  • dstool -- Dynamic Systems tool
  • xpp -- another dynamic systems tool
  • gnuplot -- graphing/plotting
  • NAG -- numerics library
  • SLATEC -- numerics library
  • fftw -- numerics library
  • bc -- simple arbitrary precision arithmetic

    software to help with documentation

  • latex -- Mathematical documentation
  • tex -- Mathematical documentation
  • soffice -- replaces Word/Excel
  • reLyX -- LaTeX utility
  • lyx -- LaTeX utility
  • webster -- dictionary

    text editors

  • emacs, xemacs -- text editor
  • nedit -- text editor
  • pico -- text editor
  • vi -- text editor
  • vim -- text editor

    Compilers, utilities

  • cc -- C compiler (Linux Dells: icc)
  • gcc -- C compiler
  • c++ -- C++ compiler (Linux Dells: icc)
  • g++ -- C++ compiler
  • f77 -- Fortran compiler (Linux Dells: ifc)
  • f90 -- Fortran compiler (Linux Dells: ifc)
  • g77 -- Fortran compiler
  • mex -- Matlab compiler
  • perl -- Perl
  • javac -- Java compiler
  • javadoc -- Java API generator
  • java -- Java interpreter
  • make -- compiling / maintenance
  • gnumake -- GNU make

    Email

  • pine -- email program
  • mail -- email program
  • mailall -- email to list of addressees

    Compression/decompression, encoding/decoding

  • gzip -- LZ77 compression
  • gunzip -- LZ77 decompression
  • munpack -- MIME decoding
  • mpack -- MIME encoding
  • funzip -- ZIP archive extraction/filter
  • zip -- ZIP compression
  • unzip -- ZIP decompression
  • unbinhex -- decode Macintosh HQX file
  • uudecode -- email UU decoder
  • uuencode -- old encoder for email

    Graphics editing & display

  • acroread -- display PDF files
  • ghostview -- display PostScript
  • xv -- view / edit images
  • xfig -- technical drawing -- the best!
  • xpaint -- graphics/drawing program
  • mpeg_play -- animate MPEG
  • lcnames -- change filenames to lower case
  • gifmerge -- create animated GIF
  • gs -- display PostScript
  • animate -- display mpegs, animated GIFs
  • combine -- graphics (ImageMagick)
  • display -- graphics (ImageMagick)
  • identify -- graphics (ImageMagick)
  • GL -- graphics library

    Graphics format conversions

  • dvipdf -- convert DVI to PDF
  • gif2png -- convert GIF to PNG
  • ps2pdf -- convert PostScript to PDF
  • convert -- graphics (ImageMagick)
  • mogrify -- graphics (ImageMagick)
  • montage -- graphics (ImageMagick)
  • netpbm -- graphics conversion utilities
  • giftrans -- make transparent GIFs

    Internet

  • netscape -- web browser
  • net -- netscape
  • lynx -- web browser (text only)
  • ssh -- replaces telnet and rlogin
  • ssh1 -- replaces telnet and rlogin
  • ssh2 -- replaces telnet and rlogin
  • scp -- replaces FTP and Fetch
  • scp2 -- replaces FTP and Fetch
  • sftp -- replaces FTP and Fetch
  • sftp2 -- replaces FTP and Fetch
  • pgp -- super security encoding

    Web Page editing

  • gifsize -- web graphics utility
  • jpgsize -- web graphics utility
  • pngsize -- web graphics utility
  • latex2html -- convert LaTeX to HTML

    Printing

  • 2up -- printing utility
  • 2upframe -- printing utility
  • EE -- printing utility
  • bp -- printing utility
  • psnup -- printing utility
  • enscript -- print text
  • lp -- print PostScript

    Miscellaneous Utilities

  • rlab -- Newton Lab utility
  • cal3 -- 3-month calendar
  • moon -- phase of moon