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Accessing the Internet from Home
If you have a PC or Mac with a modem, you can access the Internet & the UIS Library resources from home. First you need to establish an account with an Internet Service Provider (ISP) Most ISPs provide the necessary software and/or instructions for setting up your connection.There are national as well as local commercial service providers whit charges ranging from $10 to $25 a month. In addition to dial-up service, most ISPs also provide email accounts and space for creating personal web pages. AOL, CompuServ, Prodigy, and MSN are among the services providers with local access numbers for the Springfield area.
CNSNet, SpringNet, FGINet, FamilyVideo, and FamilyNet are among the local service providers that provide Internet access, email and web services.
FREE INTERNET ACCESS: There are also a growing number of FREE
service providers with local access numbers that offer full range of services. WorldSpy,
NetZero, AltaVista,
BlueLight,
DotNow,
FreeI.Net, and The
Simpsons, are some examples.
You need to access the web sites for the details.
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Using Outlook Web Access
If you have a UIS Exchange email account, you can use Microsoft Outlook
Web Access to
access your email and calendar remotely. You need to have access
to a web browser such as
Netscape Navigator, or Internet Explorer
Log in to Outlook Web Access from URL http://exchange.uis.edu/exchange,
you will see a screen
like the one below.
type in your Exchange user name in the space provided. To learn more
about using Outlook Web
Access, click on "click here" link on this screen.
A user name/password window will appear. Type in your Exchange User
name and password and
click OK.
If your login name and password are correct, you should be presented
with your Inbox messages at
this point.
Using Outlook Express to Access HotMail Account
Follow the steps below to set up Outlook Express to access HotMail mail:1. In Outlook Express, select Tools, Account, and then click on the Mail tab.
2. Select Add Mail...
3. Type in a Display name (Hotmail, for example)
4. If already have HotMail account, select "I already have..."
option. Otherwise select "I'd like to
sign up." If you select the latter option you will be guided
through the setup process.
5. If selected the former, enter the Hotmail email address and click next
6. For "My incoming mail server..." select HTTP from the
list and click next. If asked for server
name, enter: http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp
7. Enter username and password, and click next, and finish
8. Close open windows, and select Tools, Options
9. Click on "make default", and OK
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How Set Up a Web Site on UISACAD
You can create a World Wide Web home page on UISACAD. Your WWW documents must be stored in a subdirectory named
public_html under your home directory, and this directory (public_html) must be world-executable and world-readable.
Follow these steps to create a directory for your WWW home page:
- Create a subdirectory under your home directory and name it public_html. Use the command: mkdir public_html
- Make your public_html subdirectory world-readable and world-executable. Use the command: chmod go+rx public_html
- FTP your HTML files to your public_html subdirectory.
- When someone tries to open your personal WWW directory, the server looks (in order) for the files index.html, index.jsp, index.php3. See the next section for information about Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) files. Obviously, if you want a welcome page to be automatically displayed for curious web surfers, you'll give your index file one of these three names. index.html is probably the one most commonly used.
- Every document you place in the World Wide Web must be world-readable. Run the command: chmod go+r on each HTML file you want the world to read!
- The information you put into your personal home page will be displayed whenever someone tries to open the unique Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for your account. The URL for your home page is of the form:
http://uisacad.uis.edu/~your-account-id/
where your-account-id is your login identifier. For example, the URL for the account named smith is http://uisacad.uis.edu/~smith/
Personal Web Pages
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How Do I Print in the Lab?
Printing costs are $.06 per page for black and white and $.50 per page for color. Printing is paid for by a print card or by deducting money from your I Card. Venda Coder machines for adding money to print card or I Cards are located in HSB 108 and in the Library.When printing in the Academic Computing supported labs, a prompt which
asks for your name will pop up after you select to print. Simply enter
your name and press the Okay button. You may then go to the printer
server located next to the printers. Enter your I Card to see the screen.
Select the document with your name to print.
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How Do I Print from Uisacad?
Documents form uisacad can only be printed in the HSB Lab. First save your file under a filename. Then use the UNIX command lp_filename to print out your file. Go to the consultant's desk to pick up your document.Return to top
Can I Get Basic Computer Training?
Yes, the Graduate Assistants at the Center for Teaching and Learning (Brookens 460, 206-6503) can help with general Windows and MS Office questions as well as some more complex issues.Return to top
Can I Work as an Lab Assistant?
Yes, any student can apply to work as a lab assistant. We normally hire student assistants before the beginning of each semester. A set of minimum competencies is required of all lab assistants. Click here to apply.Return to top
Using Cobol on uisacad
You may create your Cobol source files using one of the editors on uisacad (vi, joe, or emacs) To use joe, for example, log on to your account and enter the command:
joe myprogm.col
Or, you may wish to create your source file on a PC and upload the file to your account on uisacad using FTP.
To compile your source file, enter the command:
cob myprog.cbl
Any errors are displayed on the screen. If there are a lot of errors then you can direct the errors to a listing file so you can refer to them while applying corrections. The following command creates a listing file, myprog.lst:
cob -P myprog.cbl
Once you have cleared all your syntax and logic errors, you can create a program that you can run directly. To get the best speed you should create native pbject code. To do this, generate your program using:
cob -u0 myprog.int
This creates a native object code file myprog.gnt. You run this using the cobrun command.
Reference Manuals: The complete set of Micro Focus reference manuals are available in the HSB 109 computer lab. You may only use the manuals in the lab.
Using SAS on Uisacad
I.
Login to your account.
In any of the computer labs, double-click on the uisacad icon on the desktop (or telnet to uisacad.uis.edu). When the login prompt appears, type your user account name (your NetID). When the password prompt appears, type in your password (your initial password is set to your birthdate in yyyymmdd format)
II.
Create a program file within an editor.
Enter an editor, emacs, joe, vi, or vim (Vi IMproved)
The
SAS program file should have a name with .sas at the end.
For
example, to enter joe to create a file called
'prog1.sas',
enter
$
joe
prog1.sas
from
the shell prompt. The prompt may
vary depending upon which shell is used.
The $ is the prompt for the Bourne shell. Now enter your SAS program
statements into the editor .
Press Ctrl-kh to display the help screen in Joe. Press Ctrl-kx to save your file and exit from Joe
III..
From the shell $ prompt, run the
SAS program.
For
example, enter
$
sas prog1.sas
at
the $ prompt.
When
the $ appears again, the program has run.
Entering
at
the $ prompt echos the log file contents on your screen.
The log file lists program errors.
If you have misplaced a command in your SAS program, forgotten to enter
a semi-colon at the end of a line, or are unable to read a data file
correctly, then the errors from these mistakes will be listed in the SAS log
file.
If
errors show up in the log file, go back to the editor and correct the lines in
your program file. Go to step III
again and rerun the corrected program.
Please
make all corrections to files, run them and check your .log
and .lst files to make sure
they are correct before printing. Print
only your good output.
V.
If no errors occurs in your
program when you run SAS, then print the list file. The
list file is created only if there are no errors in the program.
For
example, entering
$
lp prog1.lst&
from the $ prompt requests a print of your SAS output.
Ask a consultant in the lab to assist you with getting your printout
from SAS. If you want to print
all 3 files from your run, enter:
$
lp prog1.sas prog1.log prog1.lst&
MANUALs:
Manuals can be checked out and used in the lab only. There are a number of SAS manuals available in the
Consultant's office bookshelf.
§
Sas
Language
§
Sas
Language and Procedures
§
Sas System
for Regression
§
Introduction
to Sas – The Intro to SAS is very valuable in understanding the structure of
Sas programming.
To
check out any of these manuals, present your UIS Identification card to the
lab consultant and sign out the manual at the Log Sheet at the Consultant's
Desk. Bring the manual back to
the consultant’s desk when you are finished using it.
There
are many SAS explanations and examples presented in the SAS manuals.