UNIX Exercises

Exercise 1

This exercise gives practice in sending email using PINE

  1. Open Pine by typing pine at the prompt
  2. Go to the Main Menu in Pine and compose and send an email message to three people in the room.
  3. Copy the mail message to all of your instructors.

Exercise 2

This exercise gives practice in creating and using an address book in PINE.

  1. Collect the email addresses of all the people in your workshop.
  2. Create an address book distribution list for the group. Assign it a nickname that you will remember.
  3. Send mail to the distribution list.

Exercise 3

This exercise gives practice in using PICO

  1. At the prompt, type pico to open a new buffer
  2. Type a text file
  3. Save the file and exit pico

Exercise 4

This exercise gives practice in using all components of Pine and Pico.

  1. Read your email, you should find a message from your instructor with Pine Exercise 3 in the subject line.
  2. Reply to the instructor(s) confirming your receipt of the letter, include a copy of the mail message in your reply.
  3. Save the mail message to a Pine folder
  4. Save the attachment as a file
  5. Edit the file, answering the questions
  6. Save the file before exiting
  7. Compose a mail message to your instructor, attach the file you have just edited
  8. Copy this message to one other person

Exercise 5

This exercise gives practice in exploring newsgroups and subscribing to a newsgroup that meets the student's need

  1. Use Pine or your browser (search newsgroups) to explore the listing of newsgroups.
  2. Select a newsgroup appropriate to your interests
  3. Subscribe to the newsgroup
  4. Be sure to read the news everyday
  5. Before the end of the workshop, post to the newsgroup

Exercise 6

This exercise gives practice in subscribing to a mailing list. At the end of the workshop, if you are unable to continue reading mail throughout the summer, unsubscribe from the mailing list.

  1. Using your browser to search for listservs, find a mailing list appropriate to your needs
  2. Subscribe to the mailing list
  3. Before the end of the workshop, post to the mailing list

Exercise 7

This exercise gives practice using pico and instruction in changing the mode to make a file world readable.

  1. Create a .signature file
  2. Include at least the following information
Your full name
Subject Taught
School and School Adddress
School Phone and FAX numbers
Email address
  1. Create a .plan file. A .plan file appears on your finger information providing information about yourself and your school for everyone to read when they finger your account. The .plan file should include a brief description of how you will integrate technology into your subject area.

Be sure to change the permissions for both of these files to make them world readable

To change the permissions, at the prompt type

chmod 644 .signature

chmod 644 .plan

To change the permissions on your home directory, type

chmod +x