Introduction

This manual is written as an introductory guide for unix users at SISSA. It is not meant to be a real unix manual and it is not to be used outside SISSA, since it contains some site-specific information that would probably be of no use on other sites.

Typographical conventions
program	this is a program name
<key>	this is the name of a key you should hit
something	this is something you typed and/or is displayed on screen
something different	as above, plus a parameter you should provide
File $\rightarrow$ Save as	this is the «Save as» item of the «File» menu

This information is made available as

• a printed manual
• an on-line manual and
• various other electronic formats for off-line reading

About this document

This manual has been last updated on 5 November 2004. It has been written in L^ATEX2_e and converted to other available formats using standard L^ATEX and unix tools and latex2html. If you have questions about the manual itself or are interested in the L^ATEX source code, please write to calucci@sissa.it.

This document has been revised by Viviana Acquaviva, who provided many corrections and helpful suggestions.