Alex User Commands

Alex is an experimental filesystem that tries to give users transparent read access to anonymous FTP sites. Alex path- names are really composed of 3 parts. First is /alex. Second is a reversed hostname. Last is the path on that host. For example, /alex/edu/berkeley/pub/virus.patch is a file at berkeley.edu.

This document and the documents referenced by it describe some commands that users may fine useful. If you want information on the server click here.

NFS Mount Alex

Alex is a funny NFS server that needs special timeouts options (FTPs take longer than disk accesses). The mountalex script handles all of this. It will also make /alex if it needs to.

Install User Commands

This page tells how to install all of the user commands and html pages.

Commands to use with URLs (WWW/Mosaic)

There are a number of user commands for useful to Mosaic users. They are all collected under this section.

Alex Aliases

A bunch of aliases that make using Alex faster. These include things like cdh (cd host) and cdu for going to a URL.

Searching Through Alex

This is a collection of commands for searching and browsing Alex.

Other Alex User Commands

This is a another bunch of Alex user commands.

FILES

All of the user related man pages and commands can be found under /alex/edu/cmu/cs/sp/alex/user.

DEMO

To demo Alex get a copy of alex.demo.mount and run it as root. This will do an NFS mount of the demo server.

SEE ALSO

cdu, lnu, mountalex, alexaliases, archia, alexupdate, readmes, cmuftp, alexurl, url2alex, alex2url, alex2html, alexinalex

BUGS

To report bugs please send mail to vac@cs.cmu.edu.

AUTHOR

Vincent Cate