8star office – Spring Switzerland GmbH 2000 User Manual
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while the file
HelloWorld.java
is specified by a path using the parent directory symbol “
..
”:
..
✥✭✬✚✮✯✥✱✰✤✕✘✲✗✲✗✳✣✴✤✳✦✙✵✲✦✶✯✩✸✷✘✹✚✺✵✹
Other users may read the file
ex1.tex
by using a path containing the user name preceded by a tilde
character (unless reading by other users has been prohibited):
˜
✻✽✼
✥✱✾✘✿✗✾✤✥☛✕✗✖✽✕✦✙✏✛✗✜✘✢☛✕✯✢✚✥☛✕✦✖★✧✚✩✫✪✵✕✗✖
Notice, that in Linux the file system is case sensitive, that is, the file name
DBD
and
dbd
refers to two
different files.
To change current directory use
cd
. To get a file-listing in the current directory use
ls
.
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Star Office
Star Office is a free office system similar to Microsoft Office. To use Star Office, you must first install
it. You install it by choosing Star Office in the menu “Anvendelser” found by pressing the K button.
This will start the installation. You are prompted to make a local or a network installation – you
choose a local installation.
When Star Office is installed you start Star Office by choosing the same menu item, that is, Star Office
in the menu “Anvendelser”.
Typing
soffice &
in an Xterm does also start Star Office.
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L
A
TEX
You can also use L
A
TEX to type set documents. This document is type set using L
A
TEX. You use Emacs
to edit your L
A
TEX document, and then the program
latex
to compile it into a “device independent
file” (
.dvi
). As with Java and SML files, Emacs also has a mode for typing L
A
TEX documents.
More information on using L
A
TEX can be found in the note “The Not So Short Introduction to L
A
TEX2e”
found on URL:
http://www.itu.dk/intranet/sysadm/cdroms/sir
To try out L
A
TEX type in the following in an Emacs buffer named
text.tex
:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
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