The No Name Newsletter
Table of Contents

Spring, 1998

1997-98 School Year In Review
Advertising Your URL & Email Address
Bringing Windows Applications To Any Desktop Near You
C Shell Filename Completion
Common Desktop Environment
EASY5 Software Now Available
ECN Clones Windows NT Workstations
Hogle Signs On As Civil Site Specialist
Is Emacs Right For You?
LabView Update
MATLAB Available For Student Home Use
New Computing Resources At CE
New Format For ECN Newsletter
PV-Wave 6
Textbook Information Added To Course Listings
Use Power Tools To Build Your Presentation
Using AutoCAD in ASM211

Winter, 1998

Analog Web Page Statistics Explained
Backup Services Announced
Contest For Top Engineering Web Pages
Customizing Netscape
DSM Staff Adds Member Rich Franks
ECN Gains More NT Support
Engineering Library Subscribes to Two New Databases
HTTP Instead Of FTP
LATEX On Windows and NT
LabView License Agreement
Libraries Collect Networked Databases
Library Notes
MATLAB HelpDesk
New ECE Site Specialist Luann Evans
Policy On Electronic Mail Relaying
SSH -- The Facts, Just The Facts
Software Updates at ECN

Fall, 1997

1st Annual ECN Web Contest
ABE Upgrades Sun Lab
Career URL
ECN's First Assistant Director
ECN And PUCC Share Computer Account Information
ECN Software Updates
Engineering's LiteSide
Hewlett-Packard's Omniback System Provides Backup Service For The ECN
Let Your Fingers Do The Clicking
Library Notes
New ECN Map
New Manager For ECN User Services
Plite New ChE Site Specialist
Scharenberg Joins PACE Project
Security On The Web
Signal Processing In MATLAB
Submitting Your Site To Search Engines
Systems Engineer Joins ECN
Ten Electronic Journals Added To THOR+
URL: Trailing Slashes

Summer, 1997

ECN Accomplishments
ECN Analog For Web Page Statistics
ECN Apache: Inline TEX
ECN Testing NT Server
Feeling Secure On The ECN Web
ImageMagick: Digital Image Manipulation
Library Notes
Nelson Howell Joins ECN
New Engineering Homepages
Patents And Journals On The Internet
Rick Irvine Joins PACE Project
Software Updates at ECN

February, 1997

All MATLAB Toolboxes Now Available
CPLEX Version 4
Checking Web Code
Choice Sites on the Web
Contest for Top Web Pages
ECN Places Books In Sigesmund Library
ECN Public Files Being Updated
ECN Upgrades Student Dialup Lines
EN Machine To Retire-June 2, 1997
FORTRAN90 Support Expanded
Home Page Design
Master Listing of Purdue Faculty
Netscape Cache: A Quota Killer
New ECN Staff
New ECN Workshop: Course Administration Using The Internet
Search Engines: Using Their Services Effectively
Software Updates at ECN
Spring 1997 ECN Short Courses
Summer Internships for Students
Web Editing Tools
Web Site Gets Heavy Usage

September, 1996

Analysis Of The Virtual Reference Desk
Apache Arriving At The ECN
Automatically Build Your Web Page
Community Of Science
Computer Happenings At ABE
ECE And MSE Have A New Site Specialist
Establishing An IP Connection
FAQs Built For You
HP Announces The PA-8000 And PA-8000 Based Workstations
IMSL Version 3
Library Notes
Looking For A Few Good Engineers
Mark Senn Joins ECN's Support Staff
Matlab News
Microsoft Word V6
New Engineering Student Organization Pages
New VISE Lab Created
Oxford English Dictionary--Web Interface
PH Has Data About You
PV-WAVE On ECN Machines
Purdue Bell Choir
Search Path Essentials
Seeking Assistance
The HP Support Desk Is Created
The Indiana Pollution Prevention And Safe Materials Institute
The TEX Computer Typesetting System
University Printing Services
Using The Common Desktop Environment
Why Generate On The Fly
You Are Now Entering The EMPLOYMENT ZONE

May, 1996

BTPFL, Research On The Web
Cooperative Education: Building A New Web Site
Kimberly Johnson Joins ECN Support Staff
Mailx Usage
PH: ECN's Web Interface
PH: Reason For Use
TEX and LATEX
Using Floppies On A Sun Workstation

January, 1996

1994 ECN Network Map
Creating With FrameMaker
Curtis Smith -- New Grissom Site Specialist
How Do I
New Admissions Page Coming Soon
Placing Books On Course Reserve On The Web
Purdue's Library Web Has a New Look
Short Courses
The Xess3 Spreadsheet
Tom Statnick Joins The ECN
WEBINIT -- Automated Web Page Builder
What's Where On The Purdue Web
Who Are You And What Do You Want?

September, 1995

1995 Web Facts
Art in Chemical Engineering's Computer Terminal Rooms
Catherine Kozlowski Rejoins ECN
How To Use Lynx
How To Use Mosaic
How To Use Netscape
New Web Look
Recovering Lost Files With flost and unrm
SunSoft Solaris 2
The New Browser - HotJava
Using OpenWindow Applications Under MWM
Using the On-Line Course Catalogs
WEBINIT - An Automated Homepage Builder
WEB Lectures

May, 1995

A Comprehensive Listing Of Purdue Servers Is Offered On Mechanical Engineering's Web
Accessing The Web From Your PC
Can The Information SuperHighway Get You A Job? Or Truckin' On Down ISH Route 66
ECN - The Last 12 Months
Engineering Student Organizations Web Center
FrameMaker And ECN
Funding Opportunities Through The DSP Home Page
ImageMagick-The New Graphic Manipulation Program
Installing Mosaic on the Macintosh
LISP Updates
Making A Clickable ImageMap
NEW Internet Classes - Fall 1995
Pagecount: Access Statistics For WWW Documents
Purdue's Weather Seen Everywhere
Spring Graduation Information
The National Science Foundation Home Page
Using RN To Find Out What Is Happening
Using xv 3
WWW Access Control And User Authentication

January, 1995

Customizing Your Mosaic Environment
From Mosaic: How to Print And Set Your Default Printer
Guidelines For Home Pages
Home Pages - What, Who, Where, When
John Le Is ECN's PC Specialist
Managing INTERNET Information Services
Mosaic: Defining a Documents Menu
New Face For Engineering Home Pages
O'Reilly's Mosaic Handbook
Pam Hiner Joins ECN
URLs, Newsgroups, and Mailing Lists
Web Sites Of Interest
White House Home Page: Electronic Roadmap To The Government

September, 1994

Abaqus V5
CPLEX V3
Creating Your Personal Home Page
MOSAIC Brings You A World Of Information
News Server Changes
Printing Working Directory in Solaris
Sample HTML Document
Selecting MOSAIC HOME Screen
Using LYNX, A World Wide Web Client For Terminals
Volume Levels on the SparcStations
XESS V3

April, 1994

Accessing The Internet
AutoCAD and The Stage
EA Machine To Be Retired
Eliminating A Process While Avoiding Harmful Side Effects
MOSAIC -- Locator Tool For The INTERNET
Maryjane Scharenberg Joins ECN
Page Accounting on the Lasers
Replying To Your E-Mail Messages
SMALLTALK To Be Discontinued
SUN Home Directories To Change
Solaris: Printing Changes
Solaris: Search Path Changes
Solaris Offers
Sun Common LISP and Lucid Common LISP OLDER Versions To BE REMOVED

January, 1994

A Quick Tour Through Purdue's Patent & Trademark Depository Library Program
AutoCAD Release 12 January 94
CUE -- Common Unix Environment
E-mail To The White House
Matlab's Robust Control Toolbox
New & Improved Sun3's In MSEE Terminal Room
New -- XSTART Version 2
New Assistant Site Specialist In ME
New Grissom Site Specialist
Online Resume Database Service
ProENGINEER
SAS Version 6
Scholarship Search
Solaris Has Online Fax Service
The Purdue Electronic Directory Service
The Weather Processor: WXP

September, 1993

ANNOUNCE Newsgroups
A Path Primer
Answers Available
Confused About Window Systems?
ECN Announcement News Group
ECN Dialup Facilities
Electronic Sources Of Information In Purdue University Libraries -- Part 2
Hewlett Packard Workstations Come To ECN
Library Without Walls
MATLAB Release Notes--Online
NROFF HINT:How To Remove Unwanted Characters
Reading News At Purdue
SIMULINK:A Program For Simulating Dynamic Systems
What You Should Know About unsup
XSTART V1

June, 1993

ENSCRIPT Your Files
FINDIT Like Magic
Imagen Printer Change
Migrating To Solaris
PC-NFS 5
Pcal and Calendar
SUN Home Directories To Change
The Dangers Of `Softlifting'
VAXes Decommissioned
What's New In CPLEX 2
XSTART Makes X Windows Automatic

January, 1993

4UNIX Hotline
A Primer on How to Work With the USENET Community
Book Review
Books Listed On-line
Computer Search Service Can Help Locate Needed Research Money
DSP's Faculty Interest Database Gets Proposal Requests To Interested Faculty
Electronic Sources Of Information: A Place To Start At The Library
Electronically Searching For A Specific Person
Illinois Researcher Information System: An Electronic Fund Finder
Installing Mosaic on the Macintosh
MAPLE Manuals
Mail Message Signatures On The ECN
News At The ECN
On-line Fax Service Available
Page Counting on the Lasers
Purdue's Stores Catalog Is Available Via Your Computer
Purdues Stores Catalog Is Available Via Your Computer
Restructuring The Directory
SAS Manuals
Starting MATLAB
Sun Screendumping
The Internet Offers A World Of Information
The Weather Processor
Using EX And VI Commands
Using File Transfer Protocol
WordPerfect 5
Worldwide Time

September, 1992

ECN Access And Usage Policy Document
ECN Offers New Short Courses
Getting The Path Out Of Your Prompt And Into Your Window
How To Get Help When Using The Engineering Computer Network
Less Is More!
Making AutoCAD A Little Easier To Use
Please Don't Print Binary Files
Sending Faxes From Your Workstation Or Terminal
Software Directory Developing
THOR Workshop
Upcoming Change To The Hosts Text File
Use

May, 1992

Are You About To Expire?
Dealing With unsup
E-Mail Delivery Host? Where Is Yours?
ECN To Decommission 5 Machines By June 30
Electronic Mail and Privacy
Hard Quota Limits
New Macintosh Viruses Discovered!
TROFF: Nifty Paragraph Close
TROFF: Reference Header Counter
Using The "No News" NewsReader (nn) for Suns
What Is The Internet?

January, 1992

AutoCAD Release 11 is Here!
ECN Historic View: ECN Evolves Over The Years
ECN Offers New Short Courses
ECN Offers Table-Of-Contents Online
ECN Public Overhauled
Mike's Top Twenty List
OpenWindows
Shells, Environment Variables, and Paths
Sun's AnswerBooks
The New WINGZ Software
Using Hard-Coded Paths
What's at?

September, 1991

1990 Map Wars
Calendar Manager on Open Windows
Calling Fortran From C On Suns Under SunOS 4
Civil Engineering News
Dave Curry Returns to ECN
ECN Manager ARRESTED For CHARITY
Getting The Spacing Correct On A Tall Equation Inside PIC
Gremlin No Longer Supported
Guide To Account Security
Making Lines With TROFF
New Software For ECN
Notes About PC-NFS Memory Usage
Shell Configuration Files
Tranferring Files Between Machines
UNIX Timesavers
Workstations For Engineering

March, 1991

1990 ECN Network Map
4UNIX Hotline
Account Security Checking
Annex Control Character Changes This Summer
DWB 2
EE Student Dialup Modems Upgraded To 2400 Baud
Macintosh Software Survey Results
New DWB Font Catalog
Purdue Recycling: What IS It And What Will It Be?
RCS Keeping Revisions Under Control
Reduce Compilation Time! Use make!
SSINFO:Online Life Easer
Using Kermit On Annex Dialups
Using Macintosh E-mail
Using MultiFinder?
Zap Changing In June

September, 1990

AutoCAD Crash Course
Autocad Release 11 With Advanced Modeling Extension (AME)
CLAM:Computational Linear Algebra Machine
Date Error Found In Unify On Vaxes
EASY5: Modeling Software
How To Find An Idle Sun Client?
Lotus 1-2-3
NEW Saber-C: Super Debugger
ORACLE Version 6
PUCC Accounts
Putting Equations Into SunWrite
Running Large Jobs At ECN
SAS Statistical Help Available For Researchers
Smoothing Grap Output With Spline
Sun's FORTRAN Floating Point Error Handling
Updating Finger Information
Using THOR From ECN
Using The Finger Command

May, 1990

Changes To The Default Path
DBX-The Can-o-Worms brought under control!
DWB 2
Errors, Errors Everywhere But Not a Bug To Be Found
Escaping Mail
How To Configure AutoCAD For Plotting To an Apple LaserWriter
MM Macro Adjusting Header and Footer Size
New Look in Chemical Engineering
Sun Clients: The Diskless Truth Revealed
UNIX Path Power
Understanding Permission Codes

February, 1990

Agricultural Engineering Opens New Undergraduate Workstation Laboratory
CLAM: New Software On Sun Workstations
DWB 2
ECN Mac Guide Coming!
ECN Suns Upgrading To SunOS 4
Getting Help At ECN
Mac Instructional Articles, Previous Newsletter Articles Assist New Mac Owners
Mac Training Tapes in Potter Library
New PM Schedule
Purdue University Library Catalogs: A Guide to Login and Logoff From the ECN
Rediretion Meta Characters
TROFF:Automatic Numbering Of Equations
TROFF: Organizing References In Your Paper
TROFF: Underlining In TROFF
Workstation Enhancement Initiative Announced
X11 Release 4

December, 1990

4UNIX Hotline
An Introduction To MATLAB
Electronic Email Addresses At ECN
Finding Old News Articles
Interleaf TPS 4
Lotus 1-2-3 For Sun
Mac Videotape Training in Potter Library
Password Program Changing
Placing The Current Time In Documents
Purdue Computer Emergency Response Team
Reporting Broken ECN Equiptment
Saber-C:A Debugger You'll Like
TROFF Reference Database
Todd Birchman Offers Support For Macintosh Systems
UNIX System Security: Why Should I Care?
Using Email On Your Mac
Using Paste To Convert Qplot Files To Grap Files
Using SAS
Word Processing With FrameMaker

September, 1989

ACmaint- Account Creation and Maintenance
Aufs: Sharing Mac Files Between Several Users
Connecting Your Mac To An IBM Mainframe
FDDI Coming Soon To A System Near You!
Fix-It Hint From Dr Troff
HyperCard Information
Informative "Old" Newsletter Articles
Joys of Consulting at MSEE
Kim Bourne Joins The ECN
NCAR Graphics
Need Computing Help
New and Updated Software on ECN Public
ORACLE On A Sun Workstation
PM Schedule For Fall Semester
Powerful C-Shell Commands
Printing And Printer Queues
Putting Backgrounds On Your Sun Workstation
Sun Inline Floating Point
UNIX-Mac Compatibility: The Big Picture
Using PSFIG to Display PostScript in Troff text
Using SU-MacIP 3
VACATION Mail Service
Welcome to the Printer Network

May, 1989

AA Has Been Retired
Attention X10 Users
CONTOUR Plots With NCAR
Coming Soon, Smalltalk-80
Exabyte 8mm Tape Drive
IMSL Installed on Sun4
Line Printer Tips
New Troff Fonts For Apple Laser Printers
Number Crunchers
SUN Offers Software Discounts
The Quota Quandary
The Terminator (Virus Killing)
Unofficial Smiley Dictionary
Upgrading Sun Memory
Using The ECN Public File Server
VAX Machines Retire
Virus Protection
X11 Debuts

January, 1989

A sc Sample: Give It A Try
And Then There Were Zones
Art Posters in MSEE Terminal Rooms
AutoCAD Release 10 and AutoSolid
AutoSolid Coming To AGEN
Coming Soon, SunOS 4
IMSL and Sun 4
Mailing Off Campus
Meta Characters
NCAR Graphics Power
New ECN Staff
Newer HyperCard Version Available
Old Machines Retire
Problems With Peripherals? The Trouble Command
Security Problems
Sharing Macintosh Information
Spreadsheet Calculator Modified
The 12 Days of ECN Christmas
The Virus and You
Using the ECN Public File Server

September, 1988

Aufs: Turning Macs into Workstations
CAP Version 5
CSite News
Controlling Printer Jobs
ECN Computing Resources
ECN Schedule for Preventive Maintainance
ECN Staff Changes
ECN Upgrades Equipment with 3 New NP-1s
Fall 1988 Manuals in the Armory
Fall Brings Changes at the "K" ECN Site
IMSL Library News
Mailing Eighteen Birds with One Login
Manuals Available at Potter Engineering Library
Password Security
Printers on the Go!
RM with ZAP Installed on Sun Workstations
Screenblank Installed on Suns to Save Monitors
The GREAT Summer Moves

May, 1988

Accessing Old Newsletter Articles
AutoCAD on Suns
CGI Using Fortran
CRC Changes
C Learning Aids
DWB 2
ECN Public: A Public Macintosh File Server
ECNers Accept New Positions
GREMLIN:A Graphics Editor for the Sun Workstations
ISML Library News
Is a Vector Processor What You Need?
Laser Printing
Mechanical Engineering Site News
Moving Files to or from Macintoshes the Fast Way
Placing Plots and Figures Within Text
Preventive Maintenance Schedule for ECN Computers
Sample Thesis Online at CA
Sun-4, a RISC Processor for ECN
The Great Computer Move
The NP-1s are Coming
Using RCP to Copy Files between Machines
Vectorize and Compare Cyber vs NP-1

January, 1988

Adding Terminals To Suns at AGEN
Agriculture and Engineering Agreement Approved
Berkeley ISP Installed
CALENDAR: Your Private Secretary
Converting to IMSL Edition 10
David Curry Promoted to ECN Software Support Specialist
ECN Designs Laser Printer Accounting
Editing Multiple Files using vi
How One Grad Student deals with STRESS
IMSL Quick References
Kevin Hurley Hired as ECN's Network Operations Coordinator
Machine Usage
Optimization and Floating Point options on the Sun Workstation
SMP Release 1
Searching ECN for People Information
The Advanced Signal Acquisition Program Alive in the ME 385 Lab
Using The DIFF Command
Vaxima Version 2

September, 1987

AT&T and Data General Equipment
Am I STILL Logged On?
Carl Anderson
Control Characters To Change
Csite News
Custom Tailoring Suntools
EE Testing Next Generation of Gould Computer
IMSL 10 to be Installed Soon
Information Systems Network at ECN
Local Domain Names Shortened
Mac Telnet
Ode to the Unsung Clerical
Our AT&T Agreement
Painting Landscapes
Scheduled Machine Downtimes
Suggestion Box: ECN Seeks User Views
Tech Typing Tips
The BACK Command Toggling Between Directories
Top Sun Workstation Questions
Window System Newsgroups
X Window system updates

May, 1987

!!!CONTEST!!!
Building Expert Systems using PCPLUS from TI
COMPUTER-eze
CYBER-205 Serves ECN Users
Csite News
ECNNEWS: Online Announcements
ECN To Test New Gould NP1 Machine (new machine to test)
Grader Evaluations
Host Name Changes
How to be Smarter than an ANNEX Box
I do windows
Including PicSure Graphics in your Troff Document
Including Qplot Graphics in your Troff Documents
Its MYSPELLIN
Making the Sun Rise (Getting Suns Online)
NEW!! Grap Is Now Available For Testing
NEW! DI-3000 Can Now Send Output Directly To Imagen Laser Printers!
Notes on Sending Graphics to Imagen Laser Printers
Notes on using Pic to include Qplot or PicSure graphics in a Troff document
Obtaining Qplot Output On Apple LaserWriters
Obtaining Qplot Output On Imagen Laser Printers
Running Large Jobs
Symbolic Links And How They Are Used
The New Macs
The X Window System
The forecast for today is SUNny and Crunchy (new machines--purchased)
Trying to keep the Printers Printing
What Networks Are Made Of
When your Sun gets Blue (Sun trouble)
Why do Systems Crash?
X Windows System Update

January, 1987

Annex Boxes
Blockr Becoming Extinct
CE Acquires KES for CA
COMPUTER-ese
Campus Phonebook Online
Chemical Engineering
Civil Site
Connecting IBM PCs to the ECN
Documentor's Workbench Upgrade
Domain Names
ECN 4
ECN Hardware Staff Upgrades System
Future Obituaries
Gr (Grader) Grade Storage and Retrieval System
Graphics Hints
Kermit for File Transfer
ME Topics
MacLand News
News from the AG Side
PA, the final PDP-11, Disappears
Potter Engineering Center
Printer Impressions
RHF Installed at ECN
SPOT, the Terminal Watchdog
Suns Are Up
TCP-IP Replaces PNet
UNIX Pocket Guide for Purdue
Webster at Your Fingertips


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