Caveat Lector: These are some notes for a basic course on Unix which I co-taught many years ago at the University of Calgary. I keep them online in the hope that they may be useful to someone. However, they are not maintained. They may contain information specific to one (historic) network, which will not apply universally. Links may be broken.

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General account maintenance:

.login - a place to change your environment.
.cshrc - a place to set up aliases.

X Windows stuff:

.xsession - determines what programs run when you log in.
.Xdefaults - defaults (like fonts and positions) for X applications.
.fvwm2rc - a setup file for the Fvwm2 window manager. (Takes a long time to tweak, but quite nice.)
.twmrc - a setup file for the twm window manager. (Simplest to set up.)

Application-specific:

.emacs - some key redefinitions and font colours for Emacs