Feb 4-5 in COMS 326

Start your tools.html page -- using Pico, a Unix text editor, on the ruacad server

Open Bob's Unix pages in the browser for reference (see red/white menu on the left of his course page)

Unix Day One: Open Terminal, login to ruacad, and experiment 
with the ls, "ls -l", cd [foldername] and "cd .." commands to 
get an idea of the directory structure of both the Macintosh and the RUACAD server.

Making your "tools.html" page with Pico.
Refresh your memory of HTML tags.
When you have an attractive page in Pico, take a screen snapshot.
Add the "img" tag to put that image on your page

Your "TERM" terminal type must be set to "xterm" or "vt100" (or another type that Pico knows how to use), not 
"RUTERM" or "XTERM 256 colors"

See notes below on Unix commands and Pico

Move your earlier "tools-related" screen capture and commentary about "TextEdit" or "Notepad" onto this "tools.html" 
page.


Unix Day Two: 

Add a simple menu to the top of your home page and to the top of your tools page.
It can be something like this:

Home | Tools | Reviews | Prototype

or this:

My COMS326 Page | My Web Tools Page  | My Midterm Project | My Final Project

or whatever you like, as long as it eventually links to all of your work for the course.

If you want, you can have more than one "Tools" page -- one about Macs, one about Windows, one about Unix etc.

Begin to edit with Pico
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Unix commands

To LiSt the files in the current directory

ls (short version of list)

ls -l  (long version of list)

or 

ls -l directoryname


To Change Directories:
cd directoryname
  To back out:
    cd ..

The two dots mean "the directory
containing my current directory"

/ as a separator between directories


so cd public_html/coms326 means
"change directories INTO the coms326 directory ("folder") in the public_html directory"

and cd ../.. means "change directories into the folder containing the folder containing the current one.

Think of the directories as folders containing folders, or as a tree with branches that you can move up or down

users
   yourname/
     public_html/
        coms326/
          reviews/
          final/

more  is the unix command to type a file on the screen

ssh rstepno@ruacad.radford.edu

pwd  "Print Working Directory" tells you what folder you are working in
    --- especially useful if your shell configuration file disappears and 
     unix no longer includes your directory location in your prompt.