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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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