This is an old revision of the document!
Table of Contents
Welcome to SDF User Contributed Tutorials
This is a shared, member contributed, set of tutorials for existing and potential SDF users who are interested in the INTERNET, the UNIX operating system, and programming languages. The purpose of this wiki is to help new users learn about SDF.org and UNIX through practical and useful examples.
Initially, this was a subset of the information from the HTML1) tutorials at sdf.org → tutorials.
It's expected that the SDF.org wiki content will grow and change. If you have SDF wiki access, please write additional tutorials, migrate traditional tutorial content updates/changes, or port new upcoming traditional tutorial content. Copies of the SDF traditional tutorial import data 2) was kindly provided by contributing members of SDF.
Tutorials and Links To Tutorials
- SDF Basics (most basic: finding help!)
- Email - description of Email at SDF and tutorials
- Internet Web sites you can make on SDF:
- Retro-Computing - including Twenex and other retrocomputing environments
- Source Control, Software Development Resouces
Advanced Topics
- Port Allocation for meta users
Cheat Sheets
- Pico Cheat Sheet – pico is the default editor for bboard
- Emacs Cheatsheet – emacs is an uber-editor and a religion unto itself (this statement is only kind of a joke).
- ed Cheat Sheet – ed is the Tom Bombadil of editors (“Eldest” and confusing)
SDF Access Topics
About SDF
- What is SDF?
- How to Donate and why - A page to explain how and why your friends and family (or you) should help fund SDF.
- The SDF Travelling AT&T 605 UNIX Terminal - former terminal used on the AT&T 3B2/500. Coordinate with SDF to use it at a vintage computer festival and help spread awareness of SDF's past as well as what we're doing today.
Other Things
misc: A wiki namespace for other things –have some non-tutorial, not-about SDF things to wikify? Here's a place for it.
Tutorial Wiki Playground
You can mess around on the wiki in the playground namespace, which is separate from and won't affect the main wiki. So if you want to practice before making changes to the wiki, go there and mess with it however you want (remember the wiki has version tracking, so even egregious changes can be undone rather quickly!)
One thing in the playground is an idea for a different front page: Playground Proposed Front Page: Welcome to SDF User Contributed Tutorials, check it out and let folks know if you like it on the TUTORIALS board in bboard