Workbook for SLD Offline Users - First Day: X and Web

Start an X session

Start an X session if one is not already started. How you do this depends on the particular terminal or workstation you are using.

From an NCD, select a host and hit OK
From a Unix workstation, type startx

World Wide Web

To access the hypertext network known as World Wide Web, you need to run some kind of World Wide Web Browser. Examples of World Wide Web Browsers are xmosaic, midaswww and netscape. There are a number of methods of doing this, depending on your X session, what software you have licensed and your taste.

From your Session Manager's Applications menu, select World Wide Web
In any Unix window, after the appropriate setenv DISPLAY command, type netscape &
In any Unix window, after the appropriate setenv DISPLAY command, type xmosaic &
In any VMS window, type web
If World Wide Web starts up in the same window that you typed Web, you have got the non-Xwindows version. Type q to quit Web, then see the detailed instructions on setting display before retrying the command web.
If you get error messages about trouble opening a window, see the detailed instructions on setting display before retrying the command web.
For other ways to access World Wide Web, see The SLD WorldWide Web Users' Guide

From the file menu of the World Wide Web window, select OPEN DOCUMENT and supply the document address

http://www-sld.slac.stanford.edu/sldwww/workbook/workbook.html

You should then see this document. Highlighted parts of the document are hypertext links. Click on them to see a related document. Click on the Go Back button to return to the previous document. You will be told more about World Wide Web later. But for now, you have enough to avoid needing a paper hard copy of any further parts of this Users Workbook. Even if you do have a hard copy, you should resist the temptation to use it. As the SLD software changes over time, only the World Wide Web view of this workbook will stay up to date.

Joseph Perl
17 February 1995