Pine and elm are available on all the nodes of the network. Mailtool is another tool available on Suns, zmail is a GUI based mail tool available on SGIs. It is possible to read news groups from any node on the network using trn or netscape news. Software Packages and Documentation tools Emacs GNU Emacs 19.28 is available on all the nodes. Once you have started emacs, you can type Cntl-h T for a brief tutorial on emacs to get started.
Emacs manuals are avilable from the bookstore.
GNU software Besides emacs, we are also running several other GNUpackages from the Free Software Foundation. The dvi file must be converted to postscript file before printing. This can br done by using dvips. In the case of shut down of systems for maintenance, every effort will be made to give sufficient notice of such downtime. The announcements will be made to umbc.csee newsgroup and faculty list.