UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Where I work we run unix through Microsoft windows, so my unix Windows appear on my MS Windows desktop.

I surf the net with Microsoft Internet Explorer, is there anyway I can copy and paste examples from the net into my Unix windows?

Thank you

do you mean you are running an ssh or telnet session? where you connect to a remote server? or do you mean you are running something like cygwin?

Im not sure what you mean, sorry Im new to Unix

Were running MS Windows, and inside of windows running Unix, dunno how it's done.

So this basically means I have unix windows on my Microsoft Windows 98 desktop.

When I find commands and scripts off the net I want to test them out but when I try to copy from the internet or wherever onto a Unix window it doesn't work and I have to tipe it all out myself!

Is there a wqay you know around this?

It's important for us to know precisely how you start your unix applications in Windows. Because this directly affects whether you can copy-n-paste.

Can you describe how (the steps) you start your unix application? I think by providing this info some people will be able to guess which setup you have.

And also, which application are you running on unix. Not all unix applications support copy-n-paste, and copy-n-paste between applications of different windowing toolkits (gnome & kde e.g.) do not work nicely together.

Thanks cbkihong, Ill try and explain.

When starting my Unix session I goto

Start/Machines/Machine Type/Machine Name

We run a number of machines and clusters eg.V classes, Nec SX-5

The version of Unix I am using is HP-UX

When I open a machine window (which runs HP-UX) it has the appearance of a normal Microsoft Window eg. the Border and doesn't look like a TWM window.

I can give the windows the appearance of traditional Unix looking windows by running twm

I really hope this helps

If you need more info I'll try and speak to someone about more specific specs

Thanks

I think we'll definately need more information..

If it looks like all other windows programs, then when you start whatever program you're starting you should see it's name in the blue bar at the top of the program, above the main menu/toolbars/etc.

If not, look for a Help menu and then an About option to click, which might provide the name of the program..

if you do have the windows menu bar (file edit help) at the top of the window click on edit then look for Paste. i know thats the case with putty, you dont have your standard ctrl-c ctrl-v for copy and paste, respectively.