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Questions and Answers from the UCO

A more complete collection of Frequently Asked Questions can be found on our Web page at URL:

http://consult.cern.ch/uco/direct/#FAQs.


General (Miguel Marquina CN/DCI)

Question

Is there a list with the location of all rooms with public access and terminals (especially X terminals) at CERN?

Answer

The concept of ``Public Terminal Room'' does not exist anymore at CERN. However there are still four public pools, all managed locally (and not by the Computer Center): However CERN visitors are normally attached to some experiment, or are visiting someone at CERN, and consequently they should ask their host for a place where they can work.

Question

Who can help in setting the connections for an X terminal ?

Answer

This is done by people from an external entreprise reachable by e-mail at address xterminal.support@cern.ch. (In case of emergency phone 76478).

Question

The man pages for the AFS command fs is not very detailed. How can I get more information on all fs commands ?

Answer

Type fs help to have the list of all commands, and for a given command, e.g. ``fs setacl'', type:
 man fs_setacl 

Question

Is it possible to open multiple INBOXes from a pine session?

Answer

It is now possible from a single pine session (from version 3.93) to access multiple mailboxes either on the CERN mailserver or on other mailservers providing an IMAP service.

To do this you must know the mailserver password of the additional mailboxes you wish to access as in the example below:

When you open the new inbox the nickname is permanently added to the ``Incoming Message Folders''. If you cancel ('^C') at any stage the operation is not completed.

For other IMAP servers just replace mail.cern.ch with the name of the server in the operations above.


NICE 95 (Jason Oh CN/DCI)

Below is a selection of questions and answers related NICE95. A more extensive list can be obtained on WWW via URL http://wwwcn.cern.ch/cndoc/UCO/internal/CatOrg.html#n95

Question

I am using PC X-ware from a PC running Windows 95. How can I use the PC X-ware Unix root menu? Everytime I press the mouse buttons I keep getting the Windows 95 menu.

Answer

Press Ctrl and the required mouse button to invoke the appropriate menu. Then release the ctrl button and click on the desired option.

Question

Can I change my preferred electronic e-mail address from a PC?

Answer

Yes, form within Nice95:

In Windows 3.11 select phone book in accessories, search for your family name and then click on more info; within is an option to change your preferred e-mail address.

Question

How can I determine how much space I have left on my C drive (Hard disk) from NICE95?

Answer

First double click on the My Computer icon on the Desktop then:

Question

I have a setup preference eg. Swiss-French Keyboard which I would normally declare as keyb sf in my autoexec.bat. However the system regularly overwrites this file. What can I do?

Answer

All user setup preferences that would normally go into autoexec.bat should be placed in C:\user.bat.

Question

Can I from a NICE95 PC run in DOS mode?

Answer

Yes, when the machine is booting up NICE95 press: However the the problem is that this method cannot connect to the Network as it does not load the necessary drivers.


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