Cheetah are to be used for programming and panther for email and other network related activities. All machines can be accessed from the computer labs on campus particularly the Wells Computer Center in the Classroom South building in room 109 . You can also access them using a modem from your home. Computer consultants are available at the Wells Computer Center 24 hrs to assist you either in the lab or help on using the modem. Particularly you can get the dial-in numbers from here and numerous other hand-outs. The phone number of the Wells Computer Center is 404-651-4542.
Use the user ids given to you once you get the login prompt and press enter and then the password.
Here we give a brief introduction to the necessary UNIX commands (IRIX in particular, the version of UNIX running on Cheetah). Use man command to see manual pages, and man man to learn about man itself. man -k keyword will list all available commands which relate to the keyword.