ITS Survival Guide

Here's a summary of useful commands for ITS in comparison common UNIX commands.

Everywhere $ is written, it means typing Escape. On TV consoles and network SUPDUP sessions, it echoes as a lozenge: ◊.

^F means Control+F.

UNIX	DDT command	Colon command
login: user	user$U	:login user
logout	$$U	:logout
TERM=vt52		:tctyp vt52
TERM=vt100		:crtsty vt100
ls	^F	:listf
ls dir	dir ^F	:listf dir
ls /	^R m.f.d. (file)	:print m.f.d. (file)
ls *.foo	^R dir: second foo	:print dir: second foo
more file	^R file	:print file
mkdir dir	^R dir;..new. (udir)	:print dir;..new. (udir)
cd dir	dir$$^S	:cwd dir
cp f1 f2	$^R f1,f2	:copy f1,f2
rm file	^O file	:delete file
ln f1 f2	$^O f1,f2	:link f1,f2
mv f1 f2	$$^O f1,f2	:rename f1,f2
mv file dir	:move file,dir
emacs	emacs^K	:emacs
ps	$$V	:listj
kill pid	pid$^X	:job pid :kill
sudo -u u cmd	u$^S cmd
top	peek^H	:peek
^U	^D
^C	^G
^Z	^Z
^D	^C
fg	$P	:continue
bg	^P	:proceed