Miscellaneous Tools

Standard xterm does not support color. To make use of text based color-capable applications like mutt, you have to use more advanced terminal emulators. Alghouth gnome-terminal is available for most Sun Workstations, rxvt is the only available color terminal on stat servers. rxvt supports standard xterm options so you can start mutt in a separate rxvt window using a command like:

rxvt -bg black -fg green -e mutt

cvs (Current Version System) maintains a center repository and let you check out, check in files conveniently both locally and remotely. It allows you to work on the most current version of your files from any machine and can help you keep track of revision changes. The usual senario of using cvs system is:

cvs co project 
cd project 
.... work on the project ... 
cvs commit 
cd .. 
cvs release -d project

The first command check out your project (a directory ) from the center repository and put it under your current directory. You can then work on the project locally. After you are done, cvs commit will check in the modified files to the repository. You can then delete the local copy if you wish. Detailed information on how to set up your own cvs repository can be found at the helpdesk how-to webpage. http://www.stat.rice.edu/ helpdesk/how-to.