echo 'Look in a printed manual if you can for general help. You should have someone show you some things and then read one of the tutorial papers (e.g. UNIX for Beginners or An Introduction to the C Shell) to get started. The commands: man -k keyword lists commands relevant to keyword man command prints out the manual for a command are helpful; other basic commands are: cat - concatenates files (and just prints them out) ex - text editor finger - user information lookup program ls - list contents of directory mail - send and receive mail msgs - system messages and junk mail program passwd - change login password tset - set terminal modes who - who is on the system write - write to another user You could find programs about mail by the command: man -k mail And print out the mail command documentation via: man mail You can logout by typing a control-d (if your prompt is $) or by typing ``logout'\'\'' if your prompt is %.'