General Instructions and Tutorials

1. Instructions for downloading and installing PuTTY can be found here
2. Instructions for using the PuTTY secure ftp command from a DOS window can be found here
3. Instructions for installing, setting up, and using the program iXplorer can be found here
4. Instructions for installing, setting up, using the program WinSCP can be found here
5. Instructions for compiling, installing, and running the X Windows capture program "xv" can be found here.
6. Instructions for downloading and using SnagIt can be found here
7. Instructions for downloading and using xnview to capture and make gifs transparent can be found here.
8. Instructions for using lyx (a graphical front end to LaTeX under unix) can be found here.
9. TeX examples (templates) can be found here
10. Net Meeting instructions here
11. Instructions for creating PDF documents from Word (for free!) are here and here
12. Working with the totally free version of Maple 5.4 for Windows can be found here.
13. You can run XWindows from at least 3 freely available sources:
    1. WeirdX a Java client that will run Xwindows. Note you must enable tunneling in the PuTTy client, using localhost:2
    2. win32-x11 from Redhat. (Note you will have to download a bzip2 client to unzip the binaries. You have to enable Putty tunneling with localhost:0)
    3. X-Win32 from StarNet. Download an evaluation version (2 hour limit, 30 min warning). This is the most robust PC XWindows server.

General guidelines for handline graphics

1. Use xv (or ximage of SnagIt or "Print Screen") to capture part or all of your screen.
2. "Crop" the desired portion of the image
3. Convert it to the desired format (PostScript, PDF, GIF, JPEG, or PNG)
4. Use PdfLatex to process PDF graphics (with "graphicx" package)
5. Use Latex to process PostScript graphics (with "epsfig" package)
6. Use standard HTML <img src=...> to include GIF, JPEG, or PNG graphic.
7. Use "ps2pdf" to convert from PostScript to PDF formats