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How to Start some Programs

The program for text formatting and typesetting LaTeX can be started by the command:

latex

Toolkit latex2html for converting texts from LaTeX format to HTML format can be started by the command:

latex2html myfile.tex

Toolkit latex2rtf for converting texts from LaTeX format to RTF format can be started by the command:

latex2rtf -o myfile.rtf myfile.tex
NB! Before you start this converter, process the file myfile.tex with latex !

Toolkit gnnpress for preparing HTML files can be started by the command:

gnnpress

The editing system StarOffice can be started by the command:

soffice

The editing system OpenOffice can be started by the command:

ooffice

The object-oriented programming system NUT can be started by the command:

nut

The editing system FrameMaker can be started by the command:

fmaker

The package for mathematical computing Maple can be started by the command:

maple or xmaple

The package for mathematical computing MatLab can be started by the command:

matlab

The Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing the Portable Document Format (PDF) files can be started by the command:

acroread

Java Developer's Kit can be started by the command:

jde

The Prototype Verification System PVS can be started by the command:

pvs

The editor for editing macros emacs can be started by the command:

emacs

The editor for editing text vi can be started by the command:

vi

The World Wide Web (WWW) browser Netscape can be started by the command:

netscape or netscape6

The postscript viewer ghostview can be started by the command:

ghostview

The postscript viewer pageview can be started by the command:

pageview

The DVI-file viewer xdvi can be started by the command:

xdvi

Facility for Interactive Generation of figures under X11 xfig can be started by the command:

xfig

The drawing editor idraw can be started by the command:

idraw

The drawing editor gnuplot can be started by the command:

gnuplot

The image viewer X View can be started by the command:

xv


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Rein Lõugas
Thu April 1 14:08:01 EET DST 2003