AIX IBM's AIX site
AIX Operating System documentation
Loyola Information Technologies documentation
Lynx is a text-only web browser.
NcFTP is a popular alternative to the standard FTP program, ftp. NcFTP offers many ease-of-use and performance enhancements over the stock ftp client. Use NcFTP for file transfers between Orion and other internet hosts.
Here is an Orion-specific discussion of SSH clients.
SSH (secure) client setup for Orion
(Required after 16 April 2003).
PuTTY homepage.
PuTTY is a free SSH client plus secure file transfer program, pscp.
OpenSSH
is a free SSH available for many platforms.
Tin is a Usenet news reader.
Usenet services at Loyola
FileZilla is an FTP client in Loyola's Core set of desktop applications. Use it for file transfers between Orion and your workstation.
C
& C++ Yahoo's C & C++ directory
Gcc
is GNU's C, C++ and Objective C compiler. It is Orion's preferred C
development environment.
Perl
Gnu's Perl directory
Perl
Yahoo's Perl directory
Emacs
GNU's Emacs directory
Emacs
Yahoo's Emacs directory
Note: Emacs is not yet available on Orion. See February 1999 news on Orion's home page for details.
PICO is the editor used by PINE, so if you know PINE you know PICO. This link is to the PINE web site where there is some limited documentation.
Vi Yahoo's Vi directory
Elm PINE is Orion's primary mail interface, but some folks prefer Elm.
PINE is a Program for Internet News and Email. It is
Orion's primary, supported email reader.
Here are instructions for starting PINE on Orion.
PINE Homepage. This is the University of Washington's homepage for
PINE.
POP at Loyola. Policy, usage and faq. Covers general setup of POP clients on Orion, and elsewhere.
SECURE POP3 client setup for Orion (Required after 4 November 2002).
Procmail is a powerful and robust set of tools that enable you to automatically process mail as you receive it or after it is already in a message folder.
Apache is the web server used on Orion and on Loyola's institutional web servers.
Bobby is a web-based public service offered by CAST that analyzes web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities as well as their compatibility with various browsers.
Loyola Web Development maintains a site with extensive resources for Loyola's web development community.
Usable Information Technology Web usability resources.
Usable Web More web usability resources.
W3C HTML Validation Service This is an easy-to-use HTML validation service based on an SGML parser. It checks HTML documents for compliance with W3C HTML Recommendations and other HTML standards.
X Consortium
X11.org
Yahoo's
X Win directory
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http://orion.luc.edu/resources.html
revised
17 February 2003 by
admin@orion.luc.edu