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Enscript Printing Utility
What is Enscript? Enscript converts text files to PostScript and spools generated PostScript output to the specified printer or writes it to file. If no input files are given, enscript processes standard input. Enscript can be extended to handle different output media and has many options which can be used to customize printouts. Where is Enscript? Enscript is available on all engineering UNIX workstations. It is also available on Windows systems if you ssh to scully. Using enscript Enscript has many options. Some of the more useful are: -r landscape mode, rotate page 90 degrees -1,-2, --columns=num specify how many columns each page should have Sample: enscript -2r foo.txt See the man pages for enscript for additional options
Nohup (No Hangup) is a command used to run a process (job) on a server and have it continue after you have logged out or otherwise lost connection to the server. Nohup is best suited for long running jobs. It is available on all of the Linux compute servers and Solaris workstations. An alternative to nohup is screen .
Procmail e-mail filter
Procmail is a program available on the Engineering E-mail server that allows simple or sophisticated E-mail filtering without the need to setup E-mail filters in every separate E-mail client. Procmail can be used to filter specific senders or mailing lists to a mail folder, or even directly to Trash or be deleted immediately. Procmail can be used to automatically filter E-mail on the server side for the benefit of E-mail clients that do not contain their own filtering solution, or to provide consistent filtering no matter what E-mail client is used.
Psnup Printing Utility
Psnup puts multiple logical pages onto each physical sheet of paper. It also allows you to rotate the page and set margins.
Psselect Printing Utilitiy
What is Psselect? Psselect is a command line program that will produce a Postscript file containing only the pages you specify from the original document. Where is Psselect? Psselect is available on all the engineering UNIX machines. It also available on Windows if you ssh to scully. Using Psselect Psselect has the following options: psselect [ -q ] [ -e ] [ -o ] [ -ppages ] [ pages ] [ infile [ outfile ] ] -q: Supresses print out of page numbers. -e: Prints only the even number pages. -o: Prints only the odd number pages. -ppages: Pages to be printed, only needed if e or o are used. Sample: psselect -q 1,3,4,7 infile.ps outfile.ps
Screen
Screen is a full-screen window manager that a user to run multiple windows thru a single session on a server. It also allows a user to disconnect from a running process and return later to reconnect to the same process.
Sun Grid Engine
Grid Engine is a Distributed Resource Management (DRM) software. DRM software aggregates compute power and delivers it as a network service. Grid Engine software is used with a set of computers to create powerful compute farms available for applications and users. DECS Grid Engine can be configured to utilize either Sparc or Linux servers or both, depending on the application.