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- DONE Users can connect to the mainframe with the x3270 terminal emulator.
- DONE Users can send and receive Zephyr messages.
- DONE Users can browse the web with Firefox, which is preconfigured with the MIT CA, a local filesystem path for its disk cache, and the Java and Flash plugins.
- DONE Users can easily connect to the MIT Chat service with Gaim, and in addition can use the gaim-encryption plugin for end-to-end message encryption.
- DONE Users can easily read MIT mail using Evolution or Pine.
- DONE Users can read archives in Discuss.
- DONE Users have access to a rich C development environment as well as basic installations of Perl, Python, and Java.
- Users have access to a variety of non-standard utilities (jot, lam, saferm, etc.).
- DONE Users can print to Athena network printers with the lpr command and from applications which support printing.
- DONE Users have access to the enscript command to format text documents into postscript for printing.
- DONE Users can run emacs with Athena site customizations.
- DONE Users can conduct single sign-on logins to other Athena machines (provided they have a keytab and are configured for remote access) or compatible non-Athena machines via kerberized ssh, telnet, rlogin, or ftp.
- DONE Users can query and manipulate IMAP mail stores with the mailquota, mailusage, from, and mitmail* commands.
- DONE Users can access and run software from AFS lockers through /mit paths via "attach", "add", "setup", and related commands. Home directories are also treated as lockers.
- DESUPPORT Users can use a network-enabled replacement for "write" between machines.
- DONE Users can query Athena hesiod information with the hesinfo command.
- DONE Users can spell-check documents using the ispell command.
- Users can pull down MIT mail with the emacs movemail command (currently uses kpop).
- DONE Athena machines have a selection of international fonts installed.
- DONE Users can talk to serial devices using kermit.
- DONE Users can process TeX and LaTeX documents.
- Athena machines can access Windows file shares using a Kerberos-enabled smbclient which is pre-configured for the win.mit.edu realm.
- Athena machines have attach-and-run scripts in the default path for various bits of locker software such as the Moira tools.
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- DONE Athena machines have filesystem-level access to AFS.
- DONE Athena machines periodically clean up files in temporary areas to avoid slowly filling the disk.
- DONE Athena machines automatically take updates when we put out new releases.
- DONE Athena machines have a consistent set of native platform packages installed, which is a superset of the default package set.
- DESUPPORT Athena machines can be flagged as "public", which implies that they have no persistent data or customizations and can engage in more aggressive cleanup activities.
- DONE The default GNOME panel setup contains a menu of important Athena locker software (currently unmaintained). For performance reasons, the files representing this menu must be stored on local disk.
- DESUPPORT Some lockers containing frequently-used software are stored on local disk for performance reasons.
- DONE Cluster machines perform some self-integrity checking to repair accidental and casual changes to their configurations.
- DONE Athena machines may be part of a Hesiod "cluster" which can determine whether they take beta updates, whether they are cluster/quickstation machines, and what their default printers are.
- DESUPPORT Particular aspects of Athena machines can be configured by editing /etc/athena/rc.conf.
- DESUPPORT Cluster machines use static IP addresses and have an easy procedure for changing IP addresses when they are moved to different subnets.
- DESUPPORT Cluster machines run a local name server and are configured to use it to cache name lookup results.
- DESUPPORT Admins can enable various nework services with the "mkserv" command; the most popular of these is "mkserv remote" to permanently enable remote access daemons.
- DONE Athena machines almost always have the correct time as determined by time.mit.edu.
- DESUPPORT Athena machines automatically synchronize the hardware clock following Daylight Savings Time changes.
- DONE Athena users receive messages of the day prior to logging in (the gmotd) and upon logging in (the motd) and can also be sent personalized system messages upon logging in about things like impending account cancellations (lert).
- DONE Users can submit bug reports to the appropriate channel using the sendbug command.
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