Throughout this document, Monaco font is used to illustrate interactions with the computer. Commands typed in are bold face , the computer's responses are plain text . Comments on interaction with the computer are in italic . Logging On When logging on remotely to either the Vax of the SGI you will normally be using either telnet or rlogin. The login process on the SGI looks very much the same as the Vax.
All user names are in lower case letters.
Check that your keyboard does not have caps lock set. As with the Vax, when you first log on to the SGI you are placed in your home directory. The name of this directory is your user name. Logging Off For both VMS and Unix, logout is standard . Keep trying to log off, you should eventually succeed.