Breaking news
Trouble with Fetch, Telnet on Macs in Carver 449: as far as I can see, the Fetch and Telnet programs have not been updated on the Macs.
I see no way using Project Vincent from the Macs in Carver 449 at this time, but if you can log in from home, you can do MATLAB this way.
Getting Started on Project Vincent
This page explains the first steps using the mathematical software MATLAB on
Project Vincent. You need Telnet or ssh to login to Project Vincent,
Fetch or ftp to transfer files to and fro.
Use your ISU email login and password on these programs.
On Macs,
they are all in the in the Launcher window under 'Network'.
The user interface is a bit primitive - no fancy plots here.
But it works from wherever you have an internet connection!
Start MATLAB
- Suppose you are successfully logged in.
- Your first command has to be add matlab
- ... then change to your favorite folder and type matlab.
- I recommend saving your MATLAB commands into some file using a text editor.
If you use Project Vincent, you will probably have your favorite editor.
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The file extension has to be '.m'.
Such an M-file is executed simply by typing its name, eg myfirst.m is
executed by
typing myfirst (then hit the 'return' key).
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Upper/lowercase is significant on UNIX.
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Uparrow/Downarrow keys move back and forth in the command history,
if your system is
properly installed.
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See the MATLAB page for more information and
sample M-files.
Clean up after you finish
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To quit Matlab, type quit.
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Do not forget to log out of Project Vincent
when you are finished (type logout).
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In case you get cut off for whatever reason - eg you have been away for too long so you have been logged out automatically - log in again and kill off your Matlab that may still be running!
Here's how. Type
ps -ef | grep user
where you replace the word user by your user ID. You get a list of all processes that are running and have your name attached to them. The lines where your name comes first are the ones that you own. The second item in each line is a 4 or 5 digit number, the ID of the process. Look for any process where it says matlab. Kill it by typing
kill -KILL pid
where you replace the word pid by the process ID of your matlab process. Upper/lowercase is important here.
Sounds violent, but there is nothing else you can do with it than kill it off.
This assures your continuing popularity with other users and network administrators.
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Other Unix/Linux commands you may find useful: ls to list a directory, mkdir to create a subdirectory, cd myfiles to change to subdirectory myfiles, cp,mv,rm to copy, move, remove files, and finally man command to get information about the command command.