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SIPI Documentation

This is a collection of documentation on a variety of topics. Some of it was written by SIPI staff, some came with purchased software. and others like the Apache documentation came with open source software and was just put here to make it easier to find. Some of this documentation may be out of date so check it for a location of the up-to-date information.

SIPI Frequently Asked Questions

A collection of information on a wide variety of computer and network related issues at SIPI and IMSC. Please check this document for answers before asking the system staff for help.

Matlab

SIPI Matlab FAQ - frequenly asked questions about the Matlab distribution available on SIPI systems.

Matlab 7.0.1 (release 14, Service Pack 1) - This is the online version of the documentation that came with an older version of Matlab. None of the newer releases seem to have directories of HTML files that are viewable. SIPI may have some copies of the printed Matlab manuals. Ask in EEB 410 if you wish to see the printed manuals.

Email

Mail Relaying - Information on the problem caused by changes in the USC e-mail relaying policy and how to fix the situation on your Mac or PC.

"Getting Started With Email Using Pine"

Pine User's Guide

Gnu Software

Gnu C (gcc) and C++ (g++) Compilers (PDF or HTML)

Gnu Emacs text editor

Gnu Make (gmake) (PDF or HTML)

Gnu Tar (gtar) (PDF or HTML)

Perl

Documentation for Perl version 5.8.8.

Ghostscript and GV

The Ghostscript and GV programs are used to preview PostScript files. The full documentation for ghostscript can be found in /usr/sipi/share/ghostscript/6.01/docs.

How to Use Ghostscript

PostScript to PDF Converter

GV

TeX and LaTeX

This is from the TeX Live 2010 distribution

Latex2e Reference Manual

Listings package

Fancyhdr package

Geometry package

Image Formats

TIFF Image Format - documentation on the TIFF image format and the software available to read and write images in TIFF format.

SIPI System Administration Documentation

The following documentation is probably only of interest to the system administrators, who stuck it here so they could find it easily.

Apache Web Server: version 2.2.3

Dell Network Switch Manuals: 3348 User's Guide, 6024 User's Guide, 6024 CLI Ref. Manual

MySQL 5.1

Milter API (from sendmail 8.14.1)

Berkely DB 4.7.25


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