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IMAGE Lab: Saving data from Unix Workstations

Unlike the Macintosh or Windows PCs, the UNIX workstations in the IMAGE lab are connected to the UNIX filesystem. Rather than saving data in your "H" or "I" drive, you can save data to your "home" space.

Your "home" space will be defined by the workstation when you log on. It will be your primary storage space. Inside your home space is a special folder called your "public_html" folder. This is where you store your data that you want to be visible from the web.

Saving data to your "home" directory

To save data to your home directory from a UNIX workstation, follow the steps below:

  1. Click "Save" or "Save as..." in the "File" menu of the application you are using.
  2. When the dialog box appears, notice your home directory path. For example, an English T.A. with username jdoe would have this path:

    /home/english/jdoe/
  3. Click "save" and you have saved your data.

Saving data to your "public_html" directory

Saving data so that it will be visible from the web is easy to do from a UNIX workstation. Just follow the steps above, inserting the following step before you click "Save."

  1. Double-click "public_html" to select the directory that displays your web documents.

Saving data to your "H" or "I" drive

Just as the Windows and Macintosh PCs can not save directly to the UNIX file system, the UNIX workstations can not save directly in your "H" or "I" drives. To do so, you will need to use FTP.

UNIX Basics

For more on Unix, check out this handy tutorial:
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/

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