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Managing your Files and Directories

  • Disk quotas, file storage and archiving
  • How often are the home directories and web pages backed up, and why?
  • Network File Transfer
  • Reading and writing files to/from removable media/devices
  • Searching for files
  • How can I stop other people from seeing my files, or only allow certain people to see them?
  • What is an automounter?
  • Converting a DOS or MAC text file to UNIX format
  • Viewing and printing specific types of file [ps, eps, dvi, pdf, doc, wpd,gif, jpeg, tiff]
  • Decoding attachments to emails
  • Compressed/encoded file format tools[tar, gzip, bzip, zip, binhex, uuencode, ms-tnef]
  • Manipulating PDF files
  • Scanning
  • I accidentally deleted some files. Can I get them back?

Last updated by Keith A. Gillow on Fri, 06/03/2009 - 3:42pm from a page originally created by Waldemar Schlackow.
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