COMPUTER-COMPUTER INTERACTIONS

No man is an island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent,
a part of the main. ...

-John Donne, Meditation XVII

• Introduction
  • Why Use Different Machines?
  • Open Systems
  • Local Area Networks
  • The Internet
• Mail Systems
  • The mh and xmh Mail Handlers
  • The elm Mail Handler
  • The Emacs Mail Facility
    • Sending Mail, Emacs
    • Reading Mail, Emacs
• Electronic File Transfer
  • Transferring with ftp
  • ftp over Internet
  • Transferring with kermit
• Getting Programs off the Network
  • Anonymous ftp to NCSA
  • Anonymous ftp to Cornell
  • netlib
    • xnetlib
• Running on a Different Computer
  • Remote Login: telnet
  • Logging On to a Non-Unix System
    • VM and MVS Using tn3270
    • telnet for VMS
• Unix to Unix
  • Remote Login: rlogin
  • Commands from Remote Shell: rsh
  • Remote Copy: rcp
• Network File System (NFS)
• DOS, Macintosh to Unix Transfers
  • DOS Transfers under AIX
    • Read 1 File from DOS Diskette to Unix
    • Write and Check 1 File to DOS Diskette from Unix
    • Write Entire Directory to DOS Diskette
    • Transfer Entire Directory, DOS to Unix
  • DOS Transfers Using Mtools
  • Mac Diskette to Unix