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  • $Id$
  • $MAIL

    • *

  • *scratch*

    • .

  • .bashrc
  • .xsession, .xsession

    • 1

  • 1984

    • 3

  • 39 Steps, The

    • a

  • a safe way to remove a file
  • abbreviations, a list of common
  • abbreviations, making in Emacs
  • AbiWord
  • absolute file name
  • accent characters, inserting in Emacs
  • access modes
  • accounts and privileges
  • acknowledgments
  • active client
  • active job
  • adding borders to an image
  • adding chorus to a sound file
  • adding echo to a sound file
  • adding flange to a sound file
  • adding line breaks to text
  • adding margins to text
  • adding members to a group
  • adding parameters to image tags
  • adding phase to a sound file
  • adding reverb to a sound file
  • adding to your path
  • adding Vibro-Champ effects to a sound file
  • additional directory listing options
  • additional image viewers
  • additional PostScript output options
  • adjusting the audio controls
  • adjusting the colors of an image
  • administrating users
  • administrative issues
  • Adobe Type 1 fonts
  • Advanced Package Tool ("APT")
  • airport city codes
  • alias, making a command
  • ALSA Project
  • Amaya
  • amplitude of a sound file, changing
  • anagrams, finding in text
  • analyzing text
  • annotating an image
  • anonymous ftp
  • antonyms, of words
  • appending text to a file
  • applications, applications
  • applying copyleft to your work
  • appointment file, making
  • appointments, automatic delivery of
  • appointments, managing
  • archives, creating
  • archives, extracting files from
  • archives, file
  • archives, listing
  • archiving an entire Web site
  • archiving part of a Web site
  • Arena
  • arguments
  • arithmetic calculation, making a quick
  • arithmetic calculations, making many
  • arithmetic, calculating
  • arranging PostScript pages in signatures
  • ascii art
  • ascii art, viewing
  • ASCII character chart, viewing
  • ASCII character set
  • aspect ratio
  • assumptions, scope and exclusions
  • AT&T
  • AT&T UNIX
  • atlases, online
  • attachments, mail
  • attributes, listing file
  • audio
  • audio cd applications
  • audio CD, displaying information about an
  • audio CD-Rs, writing
  • audio CDs, controlling
  • audio CDs, ejecting
  • audio CDs, pausing
  • audio CDs, playing
  • audio CDs, shuffling tracks
  • audio CDs, stopping
  • audio compact discs
  • audio controls, adjusting the
  • audio devices, muting
  • audio recording source, selecting an
  • audio settings, listing the current
  • author, contacting the
  • authorization, viewing a site that requires
  • automatic appointment delivery

    • b

  • background and history
  • background jobs
  • background, putting a job in the
  • backups, making
  • bang
  • base file name
  • basic commands and concepts
  • basic Emacs editing keys
  • bass, adjusting
  • BBS, connecting to a
  • bell character
  • Bell Labs, Bell Labs
  • Biff
  • binaries
  • bitmaps
  • Bluefish
  • booklet, arranging a PostScript document in a
  • booklets, printing
  • booting the system
  • borders, adding to images
  • Bourne, Steve
  • Browne, Christopher B.
  • browsing directories
  • browsing files
  • browsing image collections in X
  • browsing images in a console
  • browsing PhotoCD archives
  • browsing text, options available while
  • browsing the Web
  • browsing the Web in Emacs
  • browsing tips, for Mozilla
  • BSD
  • buffer
  • Bulletin Board System (BBS)
  • Burroughs, William S.

    • c

  • Cable Modem Providers HOWTO
  • calculating arithmetic
  • calendar file, making
  • calendar files, including
  • calendar, displaying a
  • calendar, displaying in Emacs
  • calendars
  • calling out on a modem
  • cancelling a print job
  • cancelling a shutdown
  • capture logs
  • carbon copies, sending in mail
  • caret, in regexps
  • carriage returns, replacing with linefeeds
  • Case Western Reserve University
  • cassette labels, PostScript template for
  • CD, sampling sound from a
  • CD-R, writing an audio
  • CD-ROM drives, letting users mount
  • CD-ROM, mounting a
  • CD-ROM, unmounting a
  • CD-ROMs
  • changing directories
  • changing file modification time
  • changing file names to lowercase
  • changing the amplitude of a sound file
  • changing the ownership of a file
  • changing the permissions of a file
  • changing the root window parameters
  • changing the sampling rate of a sound file
  • changing the shell prompt
  • changing the size of an image
  • changing the volume level
  • changing to the last directory you visited
  • changing to your home directory
  • changing your password
  • Chao, Buwei Yang
  • character chart, viewing a
  • characters, counting in a text
  • characters, quoting
  • chatting directly with a user
  • chatting with other users
  • chatting with users on ICQ
  • chatting with users on IRC
  • CheapBytes
  • checking grammar
  • checking in a file revision
  • checking out a file revision
  • checking SGML document syntax
  • checking text for difficult sentences
  • checking text for doubled words
  • checking text for long sentences
  • checking text for misused phrases
  • checking text for readability
  • checking whether a system is online
  • checking whether a user is online
  • Chet's Emacs
  • choosing a newsreader
  • choosing a window manager
  • choosing the perfect text editor
  • choosing the right typesetting system for the job
  • chorus, adding to a sound file.
  • clearing the screen
  • clients, X
  • color directory listing
  • color map
  • color reduction
  • colors, window
  • columns, placing text in
  • combining images
  • combining PostScript documents
  • combining PostScript pages
  • command history
  • command line
  • command line editing, keys for
  • command, finding the location of a
  • command, mailing the output of a
  • command, repeating the last
  • command, running a
  • command, running on a delay
  • commands available while perusing text
  • commands, listing usage
  • commands, making aliases for
  • commands, piping
  • commands, running a list of
  • commands, running on the files you find
  • commands, specifying from your history
  • communications
  • compact discs, audio
  • comparing files
  • completion, tab
  • compressed files
  • compressed files, matching lines in
  • compressing a file
  • concatenating text
  • concordance, making of a text
  • Concurrent Versions System (CVS)
  • configuring X
  • connecting to another system
  • connecting to another system with encryption
  • connecting to the Internet
  • console basics
  • console font, displaying the characters in a
  • console font, setting the
  • console fonts
  • console manipulation, keys for
  • console text, scrolling
  • console, browsing images in a
  • console, emulating in X
  • consoles, switching between
  • contact manager database, keeping a
  • contact managers
  • contexts, finding patterns in certain
  • control characters, inserting in Emacs
  • control characters, showing
  • controlling a PPP connection
  • controlling access to files
  • controlling cd audio
  • controlling power to the system
  • conventions, typographical
  • conversions, cross-platform
  • converting a PhotoCD image
  • converting an amount between units of measurement
  • converting an Arabic numeral to English
  • converting HTML to another format
  • converting images between formats
  • converting Microsoft Word files
  • converting MP3 file to another format
  • converting numbers
  • converting plain text for output
  • converting PostScript
  • converting PostScript to PDF
  • converting PostScript to plain text
  • converting sound files
  • converting text files between DOS and Linux
  • converting to and from fax format
  • converting Word to LaTeX
  • converting Word to plain text
  • cookbook approach
  • Cooledit
  • copying files and directories
  • copying files to and from a DOS disk
  • copying files to and from a Macintosh disk
  • copyleft, copyleft
  • copyleft, applying to your work
  • counting how many messages you have
  • counting lines per page in Emacs
  • counting text
  • counting the characters in a text
  • counting the lines in a text
  • counting the occurrences of something
  • counting the words in a text
  • creating a file archive
  • cron jobs, scheduling
  • cross-platform conversions
  • current directory, getting the name of the
  • current working directory
  • customizing future shells
  • customizing your shell
  • cut-ups, making in emacs
  • cut-ups, making random word
  • cut-ups, making simple text
  • cut-ups, text
  • cutting out part of a sound file
  • cutting text
  • CVS

    • d

  • DAP (Digital Audio Processor)
  • data CDs
  • date, displaying the
  • Davis, John E.
  • Debian
  • Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)
  • Debian GNU/Linux
  • Debian package, installing a
  • Debian package, upgrading a
  • Debian, getting and installing
  • Debian, what version am I running?
  • decompressing a file
  • DEdit
  • definitions, of words
  • delay, running a command on a
  • deleting files and directories
  • deleting files on a DOS disk
  • deleting files on a Macintosh disk
  • deleting mail
  • Dell Computer Corporation
  • dependencies
  • Design Science License (DSL)
  • desktop
  • desktop environment
  • desktop, moving around the
  • destroying a window
  • determining file type and format
  • determining the ownership of a file
  • determining whether two files differ
  • DFSG
  • dialects, outputting text in
  • DICT Development Group
  • diction, checking
  • dictionaries
  • dictionaries, online
  • dictionary, personal
  • dictionary, searching for words in the
  • difference report
  • difference report, patching a file with a
  • directories
  • directories, changing
  • directories, copying
  • directories, finding the largest
  • directories, finding the smallest
  • directories, listing
  • directories, listing hidden
  • directories, listing in color
  • directories, listing options
  • directories, listing tree graphs of
  • directories, making
  • directories, moving
  • directories, naming
  • directories, removing
  • directories, renaming
  • directory listings, finding files in
  • directory tree
  • directory tree, finding files in a
  • directory tree, making a
  • directory, changing to the last one you visited
  • directory, finding the largest files in a
  • directory, finding the smallest files in a
  • disk storage
  • disk usage, listing a file's
  • disk, listing the free space on a
  • diskettes
  • disks, floppy
  • displaying a calendar
  • displaying a calendar in Emacs
  • displaying information about an audio CD
  • displaying information about the system
  • displaying the characters in a console font
  • displaying the characters in an X font
  • displaying the date and time
  • distribution, defined
  • document processing, with LyX
  • Document Type Definition (DTD)
  • documentation, system
  • domain name, listing the owner of a
  • domain record
  • DOS disk, copying files to and from a
  • DOS disk, deleting files on a
  • DOS disk, formatting a
  • DOS disk, listing the contents of a
  • DOS disk, using
  • DOS text files, converting
  • dot files
  • double-spacing text
  • doubled words, checking text for
  • downloading a file
  • drives, letting users mount
  • DSL (Design Science License)
  • DSL HOWTO for Linux
  • DTD
  • Duggan, Angus
  • Duke of URL, The
  • DVI file, preparing for printing
  • DVI file, previewing a
  • DVI files, printing
  • DVI pages, extracting to PostScript
  • Dvips, printing with

    • e

  • echo area
  • echo, adding to a sound file
  • editing images
  • editing images with the GIMP
  • editing sound files
  • editing streams of text
  • editing text
  • edition of the Cookbook, latest
  • editors, text
  • effects, sound
  • ejecting an audio CD
  • electronic mail
  • elements of an SGML document
  • Elements of Style
  • eliminating extra spaces in text
  • Emacs, Emacs, Emacs, Emacs, Emacs, Emacs, Emacs
  • Emacs diary
  • Emacs, basic editing keys
  • Emacs, browsing the Web in
  • Emacs, counting lines per page in
  • Emacs, displaying a calendar in
  • Emacs, getting acquainted with
  • Emacs, inserting special characters in
  • Emacs, listing relevant files in
  • Emacs, making abbreviations in
  • Emacs, making cut-ups in
  • Emacs, printing in
  • Emacs, recording and running macros in
  • Emacs, searching and replacing in
  • Emacs, searching for a phrase in
  • Emacs, searching for a regexp in
  • Emacs, searching incrementally in
  • Emacs, searching text in
  • Emacs, spell checking in
  • email
  • email addresses, verifying
  • email reminders, sending yourself
  • email signature, making an
  • empty file, making an
  • empty files, finding in a directory tree
  • Encapsulated PostScript
  • encryption, connecting to another system with
  • envelopes, printing
  • EPS
  • EPS file, previewing a
  • errata
  • error messages, redirecting to a file
  • etext
  • event number
  • event, history
  • exclusions to the Cookbook
  • execute permission
  • expansions, file name
  • extracting DVI pages to PostScript
  • extracting files from an archive
  • extracting pages from a PostScript file
  • extracting PhotoCD images

    • f

  • fancy headers, outputting text with
  • Fannin, David
  • FAQs
  • fax format, converting to and from
  • fax, receiving a
  • fax, sending a
  • faxes, receiving automatically
  • faxing
  • features of LyX
  • Festival
  • FILE
  • file archives
  • file attributes, listing
  • file compression
  • file formats, sound
  • file modification time, changing
  • file names, changing to lowercase
  • file names, specifying with patterns
  • file ownership
  • file permissions
  • file revisions, checking in
  • file revisions, checking out
  • file, appending text to a
  • file, changing the ownership of a
  • file, changing the permissions of a
  • file, determining the ownership of a
  • file, inserting text at the beginning of a
  • file, listing disk usage of a
  • file, listing the permissions of a
  • file, mailing a
  • file, making a private
  • file, making a public
  • file, making an executable
  • file, perusing a text
  • file, redirecting error messages to a
  • file, redirecting input to a
  • file, redirecting output to a
  • file, saving a URL to a
  • files, files
  • files and directories
  • files, archiving
  • files, browsing
  • files, comparing
  • files, compressing
  • files, controlling access to
  • files, converting Microsoft Word
  • files, copying
  • files, creating
  • files, creating an archive of
  • files, decompressing
  • files, determining type and format of
  • files, determining whether two differ
  • files, dot
  • files, downloading
  • files, executable
  • files, finding all that match a pattern
  • files, finding in a directory tree
  • files, finding in a directory tree by modification time
  • files, finding in a directory tree by name
  • files, finding in a directory tree by owner
  • files, finding in a directory tree by size
  • files, finding in listings
  • files, finding text in
  • files, finding the differences between
  • files, finding the largest in a directory
  • files, finding the number of in a listing
  • files, finding the smallest
  • files, getting from the Web
  • files, giving more than one name
  • files, hidden
  • files, linking
  • files, listing newest first
  • files, listing recursively
  • files, listing the misspellings in
  • files, making empty
  • files, managing
  • files, moving
  • files, naming
  • files, perusing multiple text
  • files, preparing for printing
  • files, previewing print
  • files, printing
  • files, read only
  • files, removing
  • files, removing those with strange names
  • files, renaming
  • files, renaming multiple
  • files, searching more than plain text
  • files, sharing
  • files, sound
  • files, splitting into smaller
  • files, touching
  • files, tracking revisions to
  • files, transferring large
  • files, transferring with another system
  • files, uploading
  • files, world readable
  • files, world writable
  • files, write-protecting
  • files, writing text to
  • filesystem
  • filter, defined
  • finding all files that match a pattern
  • finding anagrams in text
  • finding files
  • finding files by multiple criteria
  • finding files in a directory tree
  • finding files in a directory tree by modification time
  • finding files in a directory tree by name
  • finding files in a directory tree by owner
  • finding files in a directory tree by size
  • finding files in directory listings
  • finding newsgroups for a topic
  • finding palindromes in text
  • finding patterns in certain contexts
  • finding phrases regardless of spacing
  • finding prime factors
  • finding the correct spelling of a word
  • finding the differences between files
  • finding the host name of an IP address
  • finding the IP address of a host name
  • finding the largest directories
  • finding the largest files in a directory
  • finding the number of files in a listing
  • finding the right tool for the job
  • finding the smallest directories
  • finding the smallest files in a directory
  • finding where a command is located
  • fixed storage
  • flags
  • flange, adding to a sound file
  • floppy disk, formatting a
  • floppy disk, mounting a
  • floppy disk, unmounting a
  • floppy disks
  • floppy drives, letting users mount
  • floppy, permitting user access to
  • Floyd-Steinberg error diffusion
  • Flying Saucer Attack
  • folders, LaTeX templates for
  • font tools, other
  • font, resizing in an xterm
  • font, selecting in X
  • font, window
  • fonts
  • fonts, console
  • fonts, in X
  • fonts, printing text with
  • fonts, text
  • foreground jobs
  • foreground, putting a job in the
  • format of recipes
  • formatting a DOS disk
  • formatting a floppy disk
  • formatting a Macintosh disk
  • formatting text
  • formfeeds, inserting in a text file
  • FQDN
  • frames, window, frames, window
  • Free Journalism Dictionary
  • Free Music Philosophy
  • free software, free software
  • Free Software Foundation, Free Software Foundation
  • free-form address list, keeping a
  • Free-Net
  • FreeAmp
  • Freshmeat
  • Friedman, Noah
  • fstab
  • full path name
  • Fuller, R. Buckminster

    • g

  • gamma correction
  • generating output from SGML
  • getting acquainted with Emacs
  • getting and installing Debian
  • getting files from the Web
  • getting the name of the current directory
  • Ghostscript, Ghostscript
  • GIMP, GIMP
  • GIMP, editing images with the
  • giving a file more than one name
  • GNOME, GNOME
  • GNU Awk User's Guide, The
  • GNU Emacs
  • GNU Info System, using the
  • GNU Manifesto
  • GNU Project, GNU Project, GNU Project, GNU Project
  • GNU/Linux
  • GnuCash
  • Gnus
  • grammar and reference
  • grammar, checking
  • GramoFile
  • graphic files, viewing
  • Greenspun, Philip
  • group, listing the members of a
  • groups and how to work in them
  • groups, adding members to
  • groups, listing
  • Gysin, Brion

    • h

  • Haardt, Michael
  • hard links
  • hardware compatibility, Linux and
  • hardware peripherals, letting users access
  • hat notation
  • Haun, Gregory Cosmo
  • headers of a Web page, reading the
  • headers, placing on text pages
  • help facilities
  • help files
  • help files, reading
  • help, if you need more
  • Hessling Editor
  • hidden files, listing
  • Hierarchical File System (HFS)
  • history
  • history, command
  • history, of Linux and free software
  • history, specifying a command from your
  • history, viewing
  • Hitchcock, Alfred
  • holidays, including in your reminders
  • home directory
  • home directory, changing to
  • horizontal text fonts
  • host
  • host name of an IP address, finding
  • hostname
  • how long has the system been up?
  • HOWTOs
  • HTML, HTML
  • HTML mode
  • HTML validation
  • HTML, converting to another format
  • HTML, writing
  • Hurd
  • hypernyms, of words

    • i

  • IBM Corporation
  • ICQ, chatting with users on
  • if you need more help
  • image editors and tools, interactive
  • Image Magick
  • image tags, adding parameters to
  • image viewers, additional
  • image, scanning an
  • Images
  • images, adding borders to
  • images, adjusting colors of
  • images, annotating
  • images, browsing in X
  • images, changing the size of
  • images, combining
  • images, combining in montages
  • images, converting between formats
  • images, editing
  • images, importing
  • images, morphing two together
  • images, rotating
  • images, scanning
  • images, transforming
  • images, viewing
  • images, viewing in X
  • importing images
  • INBOX
  • include file
  • including holidays in your reminders
  • including text files
  • inclusion
  • Info
  • ingredients to recipes
  • input levels, setting for audio
  • input line
  • input, redirecting
  • input, redirecting output to another command's
  • inserting special characters in Emacs
  • inserting text at the beginning of a file
  • installing a Debian package
  • installing a shell script
  • installing software
  • interactive image editors and tools
  • interactive spell checking
  • Internet Relay Chat
  • internet services, other
  • Internet, connecting to the
  • introduction
  • IP address of a host name, finding
  • IP address, finding the host name of an
  • IRC Prelude, The
  • IRC, chatting with users on
  • is it a TeX or LaTeX file?
  • ISO 8859-1 character set
  • ISP Hookup HOWTO
  • issue

    • j

  • Jan, Dr. Lee Su
  • job number
  • job, printing multiple copies of a
  • jobs, background
  • jobs, foreground
  • jobs, killing
  • jobs, listing your
  • jobs, managing
  • jobs, suspending
  • Joy, Bill

    • k

  • keeping a contact manager database
  • keeping a free-form address list
  • keeping a spelling word list
  • kernel
  • kernel, defined
  • Kernighan, Brian
  • keys for command line editing
  • keys for console manipulation
  • killing text
  • Knuth, Donald
  • Kvaleberg, Egil

    • l

  • landscape orientation, outputting text in
  • language highlighting, outputting text with
  • lanscape orientation, PostScript pages in
  • LaStrange, Tom
  • LaTeX, LaTeX, LaTeX
  • LaTeX files, processing
  • LaTeX, determining format
  • LaTeX, writing documents with
  • learning more about LyX
  • leave, reminding yourself when you have to
  • less, searching text in
  • letting the shell complete what you type
  • letting users access hardware peripherals
  • letting users mount drives
  • lexicons
  • license
  • Licq
  • line breaks, adding to text
  • line printer
  • lines beginning with certain text, matching
  • lines ending with certain text, matching
  • lines of a certain length, matching
  • lines per page, counting in Emacs
  • lines, counting in a text
  • lines, matching that only contain certain characters
  • lines, showing the ends of
  • links
  • Linux
  • Linux and hardware compatibility
  • Linux Gazette
  • Linux Mandrake
  • Linux Network Administrator's Guide, The
  • Linux resources on the Web
  • Linux User Groups (LUGs)
  • Linux Weekly News
  • Linux, what version am I running?
  • listing a description of a program
  • listing a disk's free space
  • listing a file's disk usage
  • listing a sequence of numbers
  • listing all of a user's processes
  • listing all processes on the system
  • listing available scanner devices
  • listing available X fonts
  • listing directories in color
  • listing directories recursively
  • listing directories, options for
  • listing directory tree graphs
  • listing file attributes
  • listing hidden files
  • listing newest files first
  • listing online system and user activity
  • listing processes by name or number
  • listing relevant files in Emacs
  • listing system activity
  • listing the antonyms of a word
  • listing the contents of a DOS disk
  • listing the contents of a Macintosh disk
  • listing the contents of an archive
  • listing the current audio settings
  • listing the definitions of a word
  • listing the groups a user belongs to
  • listing the hypernyms of a word
  • listing the last times a user logged in
  • listing the members of a group
  • listing the Misspellings in a text
  • listing the owner of a domain name
  • listing the permissions of a file
  • listing the synonyms of a word
  • listing the usage of a tool
  • listing user activity
  • listing who is logged in to a system
  • listing who is on and what they're doing
  • listing who is on the system
  • listing words that match a pattern
  • listing your current processes
  • listing your jobs
  • listing your print jobs
  • listing your username
  • logging in to the system
  • logging out of the system
  • login group
  • Lucid Emacs
  • LUGs
  • LyX
  • LyX document processing
  • LyX, features of
  • LyX, learning more about
  • LyX, writing documents with

    • m

  • Macintosh disk, copying files to and from a
  • Macintosh disk, deleting files on a
  • Macintosh disk, formatting a
  • Macintosh disk, listing the contents of a
  • Macintosh disk, specifying
  • Macintosh disk, using
  • macros, recording and running in Emacs
  • Magnusson, Björn
  • mail application, picking the right
  • mail attachment, reading a
  • mail attachment, sending a
  • mail attachments
  • mail folder
  • mail folder, viewing a
  • mail notification, setting
  • mail user agents
  • mail, counting
  • mail, deleting
  • mail, electronic
  • mail, managing
  • mail, options available while reading
  • mail, receiving
  • mail, seeing who yours is from
  • mail, sending
  • mail, special composition keystrokes
  • mailing a user on the same system
  • mailing files or the output of commands
  • mailing the contents of a URL
  • maintaining a list of visited Web sites
  • making a command alias
  • making a concordance of a text
  • making a directory
  • making a directory tree
  • making a file executable
  • making a file private
  • making a file public
  • making a quick arithmetic calculation
  • making a text banner
  • making a user account
  • making abbreviations in Emacs
  • making an appointment file
  • making an email signature
  • making an empty file
  • making an image montage
  • making an MP3 file
  • making and managing print jobs
  • making cut-ups in Emacs
  • making many arithmetic calculations
  • making random word cut-ups
  • making simple text cut-ups
  • man pages, preparing for printing
  • managing appointments
  • managing files
  • managing jobs
  • managing mail
  • manipulating PostScript documents
  • manipulating PostScript pages
  • manipulating X client windows
  • manual pages, reading
  • manual pages, searching
  • margins, adding to text
  • mark
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • matching lines beginning with certain text
  • matching lines ending with certain text
  • matching lines in compressed files
  • matching lines in Web pages
  • matching lines of a certain length
  • matching lines that contain all of some regexps
  • matching lines that contain any of some regexps
  • matching lines that don't contain a regexp
  • matching lines that only contain certain characters
  • matching text patterns with regular expressions
  • math tools, other
  • mathematics
  • maximizing a window
  • Maxwell
  • measurement, converting an amount between units of
  • members of a group, listing
  • menu bar, in Emacs
  • message of the day
  • messages, counting how many you have
  • messages, sending to another user's terminal
  • Metafont
  • Micq
  • micro-editing, text
  • microphone, selecting
  • Microsoft Word files, converting
  • Microsoft Word files, reading
  • MIDI file, playing a
  • Midnight Commander, Midnight Commander
  • Midnight Macros
  • MIME
  • minibuffer
  • minimizing a window
  • Minix
  • mirroring an entire Web site
  • mixers, audio
  • mixing sound files together
  • MiXViews
  • mode line
  • modem, calling out on a
  • modem, permitting user access to
  • monochrome, transforming color images to
  • montages, making image
  • more recipes for printing
  • more Web browsers and tools
  • morphing two images together
  • Mosaic
  • motd
  • mounting a CD-ROM
  • mounting a floppy disk
  • moving a window
  • moving around the desktop
  • moving files and directories
  • Mozilla, Mozilla
  • Mozilla browsing tips
  • Mozilla, browsing the Web with
  • Mozilla, running from a script
  • MP3
  • MP3 file, making an
  • MP3 file, playing an
  • MP3, converting to another format
  • MUAs
  • Multics
  • multisession CD-Rs, burning
  • Muss, Mike
  • muting an audio device

    • n

  • National Weather Service, city codes for
  • NetBSD
  • netnews
  • Netscape
  • Network Time Protocol (NTP)
  • Networking
  • News Peruser
  • newsgroups, finding for a topic
  • newsreader, choosing a
  • non-printing characters, showing
  • notification for new mail, setting
  • numbering lines of text
  • numbers, converting
  • numbers, listing a sequence of
  • numeral, converting an Arabic to English

    • o

  • occurrences of something, counting the
  • Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Vorbis
  • online dictionaries
  • Open Sound System
  • Open Source
  • Open Source Initiative (OSI)
  • open source software
  • OpenBSD
  • opening a URL from a script
  • operation
  • options available when paginating text
  • options available while browsing text
  • options available while reading mail
  • options, long-style
  • Orwell, George
  • OSI
  • OSS/Free
  • other audio CD applications
  • other font tools
  • other internet services
  • other math tools
  • other sound file tools
  • other tools for sound editing
  • other word processors and typesetting systems
  • output, redirecting
  • outputting a beginning part of a text
  • outputting a middle part of a text
  • outputting a random number
  • outputting an ending part of a text
  • outputting multiple copies of text
  • outputting text
  • outputting text as a poster or sign
  • outputting text in a dialect
  • outputting text in a font
  • outputting text in landscape orientation
  • outputting text with fancy headers
  • outputting text with language highlighting
  • outputting the context of a search
  • outputting the text between strings
  • Overwrite mode
  • ownership of a file, changing the
  • ownership of a file, determining the
  • ownership, of files

    • p

  • package, installing a Debian
  • package, upgrading a Debian
  • page breaks, inserting in a text file
  • pager, pager
  • pages, extracting from a PostScript file
  • paginating text
  • paginating text, options available when
  • paging through a file
  • paging through multiple files
  • palindromes, finding in text
  • passing special characters to commands
  • password, changing your
  • password, choosing a
  • pasting a selection of sound
  • pasting text
  • patching a file with a difference report
  • path
  • path name
  • path, adding to
  • pattern, finding all files that match a
  • patterns, file name
  • patterns, finding in certain contexts
  • pausing an audio CD
  • PDF file, preparing for printing
  • PDF file, previewing a
  • PDF, converting from
  • PDF, converting to
  • PDF, from PostScript input
  • Perens, Bruce
  • permissions, changing
  • permissions, file
  • permissions, listing
  • Perry, Bill
  • personal dictionary
  • perusing a text file
  • perusing multiple text files
  • perusing text
  • perusing text from the Web
  • perusing text, commands available while
  • phase, adding to a sound file
  • Phillips, Dave
  • PhotoCD archives, browsing
  • PhotoCD image, converting a
  • PhotoCD image, removing haze from
  • PhotoCD images, extracting
  • phrase, searching for a
  • phrases, checking text for misused
  • phrases, finding regardless of spacing
  • picking the right mail application
  • Picking Up Perl
  • Pico
  • PID
  • pilcrow sign
  • Pimp A** Newsreader
  • Pine
  • pipe
  • pipeline
  • placing headers on each page
  • placing text in columns
  • plans, viewing
  • playing a MIDI file
  • playing a sound file
  • playing an audible time announcement
  • playing an audio CD
  • playing an MP3 file
  • point
  • Point-to-Point Protocol
  • posters, outputting from text
  • PostScript, PostScript
  • PostScript document, arranging in a booklet
  • PostScript document, resizing a
  • PostScript documents, combining
  • PostScript documents, manipulating
  • PostScript file, preparing for printing
  • PostScript file, previewing a
  • PostScript output options, additional
  • PostScript pages, arranging in signatures
  • PostScript pages, combining
  • PostScript pages, extracting from DVI
  • PostScript pages, manipulating
  • PostScript, converting
  • PostScript, converting to PDF
  • PostScript, converting to plain text
  • PostScript, extracting pages
  • power, controlling to the system
  • powering up the system
  • PPP
  • PPP, controlling a connection
  • PPP, setting up
  • preface
  • preparing a DVI file for printing
  • preparing a man page for printing
  • preparing a PDF file for printing
  • preparing a PostScript file for printing
  • preparing files for printing
  • pretty-printing
  • previewing a DVI file
  • previewing a PDF file
  • previewing a PostScript file
  • previewing print files
  • prime factors, finding
  • print files, previewing
  • print job, cancelling a
  • print job, sending to the printer
  • print jobs, listing your
  • print jobs, making and managing
  • printing, printing
  • printing in Emacs
  • printing multiple copies of a job
  • printing the contents of an Xterm window
  • printing with Dvips
  • printing, more recipes for
  • printing, preparing files for
  • privileges, user
  • process ID
  • processes
  • processes, listing
  • processes, listing all of a user's
  • processes, listing all on the system
  • processes, listing by name or number
  • processes, listing your current
  • processing LaTeX files
  • processing TeX files
  • Procomm
  • productivity
  • program, listing a description of a
  • programs, starting in X
  • proprietary formats, converting data from
  • PS1
  • PSUtils
  • purpose of the book
  • putting a job in the background
  • putting a job in the foreground
  • putting an image in the root window

    • q

  • quantizing images
  • Quarter Century of UNIX, A
  • quoting characters

    • r

  • random number, outputting a
  • rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP)
  • RCS
  • read permission
  • readability, checking text for
  • reading a mail attachment
  • reading a page from the system manual
  • reading mail, options available while
  • reading system documentation and help files
  • reading text from the Web
  • reading the headers of a web page
  • reading Usenet
  • receiving a fax
  • receiving faxes automatically
  • receiving mail
  • recipes, definition of
  • recipes, format of
  • recording a shell session
  • recording a sound file
  • recording and running macros in Emacs
  • recording source, selecting an audio
  • Red Hat
  • Red Hat Linux
  • redirecting error messages to a file
  • redirecting input and output
  • redirecting input to a file
  • redirecting output to a file
  • redirecting output to another command's input
  • reference files
  • reference, tools for
  • regexp, matching lines that don't contain a
  • regexps
  • regexps for common situations
  • regexps, matching lines that contain all of some
  • regexps, matching lines that contain any of some
  • regexps, searching for in Emacs
  • regexps, using a list to match from
  • register labels, LaTeX templates for
  • regular expressions -- matching text patterns
  • relevant text, finding
  • reminders
  • reminders, including holidays in your
  • reminding yourself of things
  • reminding yourself when you have to leave
  • removable storage
  • removing a file with a strange name
  • removing files and directories
  • removing files, a safe way to
  • removing PhotoCD haze
  • renaming multiple files with the same extension
  • repeated words, checking text for
  • repeating the last command you typed
  • replacing text
  • resizing a PostScript document
  • resizing a window
  • resizing the xterm font
  • reverb, adding to a sound file
  • reverse incremental search
  • reversing a sound file
  • reversing text
  • Revision Control System (RCS)
  • revision log, viewing a file's
  • revisions, tracking to a file
  • Rexx
  • rhyme, listing words that
  • ripping sound from a CD
  • Ritchie, Dennis
  • rolodexes
  • root
  • root account
  • root directory
  • root window
  • root window parameters, changing the
  • root window, putting an image in the
  • rotating an image
  • RSVP
  • running a command
  • running a command on a delay
  • running a list of commands
  • running a shell in X
  • running a Vi tutorial
  • running commands on the files you find
  • running X
  • running x clients automatically
  • Rutten, Rob

    • s

  • SAL
  • Salus, Peter
  • sampling rate of a sound file, changing the
  • sampling sound from a CD
  • Samudrala, Ram
  • SANE
  • saving a URL to a file
  • scaling image size
  • scanner devices, listing
  • scanner, testing
  • scanning an image
  • scanning images
  • scope of the Cookbook
  • screen shot, taking in a console
  • screen shots, in X
  • screen shots, taking
  • scrolling the console text
  • searching and replacing in Emacs
  • searching and replacing text
  • searching for a phrase in Emacs
  • searching for a regexp in Emacs
  • searching for a word or phrase
  • searching incrementally in Emacs
  • searching more than plain text files
  • searching text
  • searching text in Emacs
  • searching text in less
  • searching, outputting context while
  • seascape orientation, PostScript pages in
  • seeing who your mail is from
  • selecting an audio recording source
  • selecting an X font name
  • selecting text
  • selecting the pages of text to output
  • sending a fax
  • sending a mail attachment
  • sending a message to another user's terminal
  • sending a print job to the printer
  • sending mail
  • sending mail to a user on the same system
  • sending yourself email reminders
  • sentences, checking text for difficult
  • sentences, checking text for long
  • session, recording a
  • setting notification for new mail
  • setting the console font
  • setting up PPP
  • SGML document, elements of an
  • SGML, checking document syntax
  • SGML, generating output from
  • SGMLtools
  • SGMLtools, writing documents with
  • shell prompt, shell prompt
  • shell prompt, changing
  • shell redirection
  • shell script, installing a
  • shell scripts
  • shell session, recording
  • shell, customizing
  • shell, running in X
  • shells
  • showing non-printing characters
  • shuffling audio CD tracks
  • shutdown, cancelling a
  • shutting down at a certain time
  • shutting down immediately
  • shutting down the system
  • signature file
  • signatures, PostScript
  • signs, outputting from text
  • single-spacing text
  • Slackware Linux
  • Slashdot
  • sleeping process
  • Snd
  • soft links
  • software, installing
  • software, listing those that match a keyword.
  • sorting text
  • sorting text in order of relevance
  • sound
  • sound editing, other tools for
  • sound effects
  • sound file formats
  • sound file tools, other
  • sound file, cutting out part of a
  • sound file, playing a
  • sound file, recording a
  • sound file, reversing a
  • sound files
  • sound files, converting
  • sound files, editing
  • sound files, mixing together
  • sound files, working with selections from
  • sound, pasting a selection of
  • sound, sampling from a CD
  • soundcard, permitting user access to
  • Sourceforge
  • space and tab characters, swapping
  • spaces, eliminating extra in text
  • spacing text
  • spacing, finding phrases regardless of
  • spam
  • special characters, inserting in Emacs
  • special characters, listing
  • special characters, passing to commands
  • special mail composition keystrokes
  • specifying a command from your history
  • specifying additional window attributes
  • specifying file names with patterns
  • specifying the Macintosh disk to use
  • specifying window colors
  • specifying window font
  • specifying window size and location
  • spell checking files
  • spell checking in Emacs
  • spell checking, interactive
  • spelling
  • spelling, keeping a word list for
  • splitting a file into smaller ones
  • spool queue
  • staircase effect
  • Stallman, Richard, Stallman, Richard
  • standard error
  • standard input, standard input
  • standard output, standard output
  • StarOffice
  • start menu
  • starting X
  • StarWriter
  • Stettner, Heidi
  • sticky windows
  • stopping a job
  • stopping an audio CD
  • stopping X
  • storage, disk
  • streaming MP3 audio, playing
  • streaming text
  • streams
  • streams, text
  • strings, outputting the text between
  • strings, text
  • Strunk, William
  • style, checking
  • subdirectories
  • superuser
  • superuser account
  • SuSE
  • SuSE Linux
  • suspending a connection with another system
  • suspending a job
  • swapping tab and space characters
  • switching between consoles
  • switching between video modes
  • symbolic links
  • symlinks
  • synergy, defined
  • synonyms, of words
  • system activity, listing
  • system dictionary
  • system manual, reading a page from the
  • system, checking whether one is online
  • system, connecting to another
  • system, connecting to another with encryption
  • system, controlling power to the
  • system, displaying information about the
  • system, how long has it been up
  • system, listing who is logged in to a
  • system, listing who is on the
  • system, logging in to the
  • system, logging out of the
  • system, powering up the
  • system, shutting down immediately
  • system, shutting down the
  • system, suspending a connection with another
  • system, turning off the
  • systems, listing activity of online

    • t

  • tab and space characters, swapping
  • tab characters, showing
  • tab completion
  • taking a screen shot in a console
  • taking a screen shot in x
  • taking screen shots
  • tarballs
  • telephone codes
  • teletype
  • Telix
  • templates, TeX and LaTeX
  • terminals
  • testing a scanner
  • TeX
  • TeX and LaTeX document templates
  • TeX Catalogue Online
  • TeX files, processing
  • TeX, determining format
  • TeX, writing documents with
  • Texinfo
  • Text
  • text banner, making a
  • text cut-ups
  • text editing
  • text editor, choosing a
  • text files, converting between DOS and Linux
  • text files, including
  • text fonts
  • text fonts, horizonal
  • text relevance
  • text, adding line breaks to
  • text, adding margins to
  • text, analyzing
  • text, appending to a file
  • text, checking for difficult sentences
  • text, checking for doubled words
  • text, checking for long sentences
  • text, checking for misused phrases
  • text, checking for readability
  • text, concatenating
  • text, converting to PostScript
  • text, counting
  • text, counting the characters in a
  • text, counting the lines in a
  • text, counting the words in a
  • text, counting unique words in
  • text, cutting
  • text, determining if two differ
  • text, double-spacing
  • text, editing streams of
  • text, eliminating extra spaces in
  • text, finding anagrams in
  • text, finding palindromes in
  • text, formatting
  • text, from PostScript
  • text, inserting at the beginning of a file
  • text, listing the Misspellings in a
  • text, making a concordance of a
  • text, matching lines beginning with certain
  • text, matching lines ending with certain
  • text, numbering lines of
  • text, outputting
  • text, outputting a beginning part of a
  • text, outputting a middle part of a
  • text, outputting an ending part of a
  • text, outputting in a dialect
  • text, outputting in a font
  • text, outputting in landscape orientation
  • text, outputting multiple copies of
  • text, outputting that between strings
  • text, outputting with fancy headers
  • text, outputting with language highlighting
  • text, paginating
  • text, pasting
  • text, perusing
  • text, perusing from the Web
  • text, placing in columns
  • text, reading from the Web
  • text, reversing
  • text, scrolling the console
  • text, searching through
  • text, selecting
  • text, selecting the pages to output
  • text, single-spacing
  • text, sorting
  • text, sorting in order of relevance
  • text, spacing
  • text, streaming
  • text, triple-spacing
  • text, underlining
  • text, writing to files
  • texts, finding the differences between
  • TeX{}
  • the shell
  • the World Wide Web
  • Third Mind, The
  • Thompson, Ken
  • tilde commands, in mail
  • time, audible output of the
  • time, displaying the
  • time, shutting down at a certain
  • timestamps, file
  • title bar, title bar, title bar
  • tool, finding the right one
  • tool, listing the usage of a
  • tools, tools
  • tools philosophy of Unix
  • Torvalds, Linus
  • Toy Story
  • tracking revisions to a file
  • transferring files with another system
  • transforming images
  • trashcan directory
  • treble, adjusting
  • tree graphs, of directories
  • triple-spacing text
  • tty
  • turning off the system
  • typescripts
  • typesetting and word processing
  • typesetting system, choosing the right one for the job
  • typesetting with TeX and friends
  • typographical conventions

    • u

  • underlining text, underlining text
  • underscores
  • units of measurement, converting an amount between
  • University of Southern California-Berkeley
  • University of Washington
  • Unix, Unix
  • Unix and the tools philosophy
  • UNIX Environment, The, UNIX Environment, The
  • unmounting a CD-ROM
  • unmounting a floppy disk
  • unused files, finding in a directory tree
  • upgrading a Debian package
  • uploading a file
  • URL, mailing the contents of a
  • URL, saving to a file
  • Usenet
  • user account, making a
  • user accounts
  • user activity, listing
  • user groups, for Linux
  • user privileges
  • user, chatting directly with a
  • user, checking whether one is online
  • username
  • username, listing your
  • users, administrating
  • users, chatting with on ICQ
  • users, chatting with on IRC
  • users, chatting with other
  • users, listing activity of online
  • users, listing those online
  • users, listing what they are doing
  • users, listing when they last logged in
  • users, listing which are on
  • using a list of regexps to match from
  • using DOS and Windows disks
  • using Macintosh disks
  • using the GNU Info system

    • v

  • validating an HTML file
  • variables, shell
  • verifying an email address
  • versions, latest edition, and errata
  • Vi, Vi, Vi
  • Vi, running a tutorial
  • Vibro-Champ effect, adding to a sound file
  • video modes, switching between
  • video tape labels, PostScript template for
  • viewing a character chart
  • viewing a file's revision log
  • viewing a mail folder
  • viewing a site that requires authorization
  • viewing an image from the Web
  • viewing an image in a Web browser
  • viewing an image in X
  • viewing images
  • viewing text
  • viewing your command history
  • virtual consoles
  • virtual desktop
  • visual image directory
  • volume level, changing the
  • volume of a sound file, changing
  • volume, adjusting
  • Vuksan, Vladimir

    • w

  • Walker, Andrew, Walker, Andrew, Walker, Andrew
  • Web browser, viewing an image in a
  • Web browsers and tools, more
  • Web browsing, with Mozilla
  • Web page, reading the headers of a
  • Web pages, matching lines in
  • Web resources, for Linux
  • Web site, archiving an entire
  • Web site, archiving part of a
  • Web site, mirroring an entire
  • Web sites, maintaining a history list of
  • Web, browsing in Emacs
  • Web, getting files from the
  • Web, perusing text from the
  • Web, reading text from the
  • Web, viewing an image from the
  • what every Linux user knows
  • what to try first
  • what version of Debian am I running?
  • what version of Linux am I running?
  • What's Debian?
  • what's Debian?
  • what's free software?
  • what's Linux?
  • what's Open Source?
  • what's Unix?
  • wildcards
  • Winamp
  • window attributes, specifying additional
  • window border, window border
  • window colors, specifying
  • window font, specifying
  • window geometry
  • window manager
  • window managers, choosing
  • window outline
  • window size and location, specifying
  • Windows disk, using
  • windows, deiconifying
  • windows, destroying
  • windows, iconifying
  • windows, manipulating
  • windows, maximizing
  • windows, minimizing
  • windows, moving
  • windows, resizing
  • windows, sticky
  • wizard, defined
  • word lists and reference files
  • word lists, for spelling
  • word processing
  • word processors and typesetting systems, other
  • word search, in Emacs
  • Word, converting to LaTeX
  • Word, converting to plain text
  • word, finding the correct spelling of a
  • word, listing the antonyms of a
  • word, listing the definitions of a
  • word, listing the hypernyms of a
  • word, listing the synonyms of a
  • word, searching for a
  • WordNet lexical database
  • words, counting in a text
  • words, listing that match a pattern
  • workbench
  • working with linux
  • working with selections from sound files
  • World Wide Web (WWW)
  • World Wide Web Consortium
  • write permission
  • write protection
  • write-protecting a file
  • Writer's Workbench (WBB)
  • Writer's WorkBench (WBB)
  • writing an audio CD-R
  • writing documents with LyX
  • writing documents with SGMLtools
  • writing documents with TeX and LaTeX
  • writing HTML
  • writing text to files
  • WYSIWYM

    • x

  • X client
  • X clients, manipulating windows of
  • X clients, running automatically
  • X font name
  • X font name, selecting
  • X font, displaying the characters in an
  • X fonts
  • X fonts, listing available
  • X selection, X selection
  • X server
  • X Window Dump files, viewing
  • X Window System
  • X, configuring
  • X, starting
  • X, stopping
  • XEmacs
  • XMMS
  • xterm font, resizing
  • Xterm window, printing the contents of an
  • XWave

    • y

  • yanking text

    • z

  • Zawinski, Jamie, Zawinski, Jamie
  • Zicq
  • zombie process

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