An Introduction to IRIX for VMS Users

Russell C. Bjork and Jonathan R. Senning, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Gordon College

1. Introduction

• 1.1 About This Document
• 1.2 About Unix and IRIX

2. Lexical Conventions

• 2.1 Lowercase and Uppercase Letters
• 2.2 Special Characters

3. Logging In and Out

• 3.1 Logging In
• 3.2 Logging Out

4. Filename and Pathname Syntax

• 4.1 The Directory Hierarchy
• 4.2 Syntax of Filenames

5. Basic System Commands

• 5.1 Online Documentation
• 5.2 Common VMS Commands and their Unix Equivalents

6. Textfile Editing

• 6.1 Standard Editors
• 6.2 Jed (for EDT Emulation)
• 6.3 Jot

7. Compiling and Executing Programs in C and C++

• 7.1 C
• 7.2 C++
• 7.3 GNU C, C++
• 7.4 Linking Multiple Files
• 7.5 Using Make