This Email is a reminder to all students about ECF procedures.

1) There is no food or drink allowed in the labs whether you are
   eating or drinking is of no consequence. If you bring food or
   drink into the labs then it must stay inside you pack or jacket.
   Food or drink in a container is still a violation if it is visible.
   THIS INCLUDES WATER.

2) No one else is allowed to use your ECF computer account. Do not
   tell anyone your password, and change your password if you think
   someone has discovered it. You are responsible for your account.

3) Every student has a print quota for each term. If you exceed this
   quota by 100 pages or more you will have to pay $5.00 for each
   100 pages over quota. There are only 2 terms for calculating your
   print quota Jan-May and June-Dec. Users not paying for their excess
   printing will have their accounts locked. This year we are attempting
   to use a single quota for all printing in ECF UNIX and ECFPC. The new
   quota limits per term are:

         1ST Year - 400 pages
         2ND Year - 500 pages
         3RD Year - 500 pages
         4TH Year - 600 pages

   Graduate student ECF accounts are primarily for E-mail and access
   to the internet. As such they are limited to 100 page quota.

   Users can determine their current page count by logging into the
   ECF UNIX systems and running the  pq  command. The pq command will
   give you your print total since the database was last updated, which
   will probably be the night before.


4a) To check the print queue on the UNIX systems use the lpq command

	lpq -Psf1012

   checks the print queue for the printer in SF1012
   To removed a job from the queue use the lprm command

	lprm -Psf1012 job#

   removes the job# from the Sf1012 printer queue. To obtain
   the job# use the lpq command. To remove all your jobs from a queue
   replace the job# with your login name.

	lprm -Psf1012 loginname

4b) To check the print queue and/or remove jobs on the WINDOWS systems
    follow the following proceedure:

	There is an icon in the start menu.
	Double click on "Print Queue Viewer"

5) Every student has access to a personal web page. To create the initial
   web page you run the  wwwinit   command on the ECFUNIX systems. For more
   information see   http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/ecf/Webpage

6) ECF does not provide a 'help' service, that is the responsibility
   of your department.

7) Remote access to the ECF mail server is not possible.
   For information about Email see  http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/ecf/Mail

8) Never turn off the computers when you are done. This can damage the
   software on the disk.

9) There is no food or drink allowed in the labs. Abusers of this rule
   will have their accounts locked. Labs will be closed in the evenings
   and on weekends if problems persist.

10) Remote access to the ECF UNIX computers is possible with SSH
    for more information see   http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/ecf/ssh.html

11) If you are in an ECFUNIX lab and the screen is all vertical lines
    and the system does not respond then you can reset the graphics
    by typing the 3 keys  CNTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE.

12) Access to the ECFUNIX floppy drive is not possible with drag and drop
    due to security issues. To use the floppy drive you must use the
    Mtools package. For information on the Mtools package see the online
    manual (man mtools).

13) Repeat offenders of the ECF food and drink policy could have their
    account locked indefinitely.

14) Your ECF account is for academic purposes. Users abusing their ECF
    account may face sanctions under various University codes of conduct
    or even face criminal charges.

15) Reinstatement of accounts locked for food/drink violations requires
    authorization from your Department Chair.

16) Hotmail account holders that forward their Email from ECF to their
    Hotmail address should be aware of hotmail mailbox size limitations
    that may result in dropped Email messages.

17) Hotmail account holders that set the "Junk Mail Filter" to "high"
    and the "Junk Mail Deletion" set to "Immediate Deletion" will not
    receive Email from ECF.

18) Problems with equipment in ECF labs such as jammed printers or
    broken mice/keyboards/floppy drives should be reported to ECF STAFF
    by sending E-mail to trouble@ecf for UNIX labs or ecfpc@ecf for
    WINDOWS labs. In the E-mail try to be as specific as possible identifying
    the affected equipment so that we can fix the problem. If it is not
    reported, it will not get fixed in a timely fashion.

19) Users should not keep old Email in their INBOX or mail spool file.
    Please delete all unnecessary Email and save important Email to a
    file/folder.

20) Grad 'course' accounts only last the duration of the course, usually
    one term, at which point they are terminated. Grads should save any
    files they want to keep before the 'course' account is disabled.

21) All students are encouraged to get a permanent E-mail address outside
    ECF. Your ECF E-mail address disappears when you are nolonger a
    registered Engineering student. This is especially important to
    graduating students that job hunt using E-mail. Once you graduate
    your account will disappear, so don't give your ECF E-mail address
    as a contact point when job hunting. There are many E-mail servers
    available (rogers, bell sympatico, hotmail) UtorMail is available
    see the UofT web page or go to the Robarts Library.

For more information see the ECF web site http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/ecf