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From: bagchi@eecs.umich.edu (Ranjan Bagchi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: new sgi user has queries
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Date: 16 May 91 22:57:27 GMT
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	Welp, I got to play with an sgi machine for the first
time last night, and let me say, I'm impressed.   Like really
really impressed.  I screwed around with some demo programs, 
and saw that everything I wished I could do with the X programs
I hacked out on the suns, but couldn't because I didn't have the
speed are well within the limits of this machine.  Not bad for a
night's use.
 
	Unfortunately, these machines (I know of 2) aren't terribly
popular for most users, and while they seem to have a "normal"
configuration, what I really need is a decent set of dotfiles which
give me something close to a reasonable environment to work in.  I
naively tried the ones which I"m happy with on Sparcs and Decstations,
but they simply don't do it.  So, because I don't know who the sgi
guru is on my site, I consult the net.  Could you send me your
favorite dotfiles, and give me an idea how to work this silly machine?
I'm quite familiar with UNIX...just not the sgi-specific stuff.
 
	RTFM's welcome...as long as which M and where in it is
given...

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