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Levels of Software Support

 

Recommended
Software

Macintosh and
Windows & DOS

Adaptive
Technology
Unix/Sun Solaris

Help Desk offers the following Levels of Software Support for the various software packages on campus computer systems, CSU specialty centers and desktop computers (mainly in the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) Lab).   Help Desk provides primary support for the software packages in the Recommended Software list below. The other lists are of software packages that are available in the DoIT Lab, on the SFSU Internet Cluster, or available to the campus community to meet special requirements.

Help Desk also makes Macintosh applications and Windows Applications and Utilities available on the Web for SFSU users to download.

Additional information on the SFSU Site Licenses & Pricing Agreement, and the CSU-Microsoft Campus Enterprise Agreement program are available.


Recommended Software

SOFTWARE NAME DESCRIPTION TYPE OF SUPPORT
Eudora POP electronic mail program Consulting, documentation, training, downloading (Mac - 3.1; Windows - 1.5.2, 3.06)
Fetch Macintosh file transfer program Consulting, documentation, downloading
FreePPP Macintosh PPP network communications software Consulting, documentation (MacOS 7.x, 8), downloading (Internet Kit for Macintosh)
FTP Unix-based file transfer program Consulting, documentation (General, Unix)
HostExplorer Terminal emulation program Consulting, documentation ( Win 95/98, Win NT4) downloading ( Win 95/98, Win NT4)
Mac OS Macintosh operating system Consulting, documentation, training
Mac TCP Macintosh Networking software for Mac OS 7.5.3 and earlier Consulting, documentation, downloading (available in Help Desk office)
Mac TCP/IP (Open Transport) Macintosh Networking software for Mac OS 7.5.3 and later Consulting, documentation (7.x, 8.0)
Meeting Maker
(for faculty and staff only)
A calendar program that can be used to coordinate schedules,
appointments, meetings and tasks
Consulting, documentation (install, user), downloading (Windows, Macintosh)
Microsoft Excel Integrated software package Consulting, training
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 World Wide Web browser Consulting
Microsoft Office 97 Integrated office application suite for Windows Consulting
Microsoft Office 98 Integrated office application suite for Macintosh Consulting
Microsoft Office 2000 Integrated office application suite for Windows Consulting, available in DoIT Lab
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation software Consulting, training
Microsoft Windows 95 Windows Environment Limited consulting; will drop support by 1/02
Microsoft Windows 98 Windows Environment Consulting, training
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server Windows Environment Consulting
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Windows Environment Consulting
Microsoft Word Word processor Consulting, training
Netscape Communicator A suite of graphical Internet
applications including a World Wide Web browser, a POP mail
program, an HTML editor and a newsreader
Consulting, training, downloading (Mac - Power PC, 68K; Wi ndows)
Netscape Navigator World Wide Web browser Consulting, training, downloading (Macintosh - PowerPC, 68KWindows)
Pine Unix-based electronic mail program Consulting, documentation
Stuffit Expander File decoding and expanding program Consulting, downloading
TCP3270 Terminal emulation program Consulting, downloading (Mac, Windows)
Virex Virus protection program for Macintosh Consulting, documentation, downloading
VirusScan Virus protection program for DOS and Windows Consulting, documentation (DOS, Win95/98, WinNT), downloading (Win95/98, WinNT)
WS FTP Light Windows File Transfer Program Consulting, documentation, downloading
WinZIP File decoding and expanding program Consulting, downloading

 


Macintosh and Windows & DOS

SOFTWARE NAME DESCRIPTION TYPE OF SUPPORT
Adobe Illustrator Design and illustration package Available in DoIT Lab, training
Adobe PageMaker Desktop publishing package Available in DoIT Lab, training
Adobe PageMill Web site management program Available in DoIT Lab, training
Adobe Photoshop Graphics package Available in DoIT Lab, training
Brio (staff only) Oracle database interface program Installation
Microsoft Access Database management program Available in DoIT Lab, training
Microsoft DOS Operating system Consulting
Microsoft FrontPage Web page development and publishing program Available in DoIT Lab, consulting, training
Microsoft Internet Explorer World Wide Web browser Available in DoIT Lab
Microsoft Office 95 Integrated office application suite Consulting
MINITAB Statistics program Available in DoIT Lab
NCSA Telnet Terminal emulation program for the Macintosh Consulting, documentation, downloading
Norton Anti-Virus Virus protection program Available in DoIT Lab
OmniPage Optical character recognition software Available in DoIT Lab
Oracle Database management system For classes and projects only
SAS Statistics package Available from Help Desk; site license for faculty and staff
SPSS for Windows and Macintosh Statistics package Available from Help Desk; site license for faculty and staff, available in DoIT Lab
WinQVT Windows Telnet Program (vt100 emulation) Consulting, documentation, downloading


Unix / SUN Solaris

SOFTWARE NAME DESCRIPTION TYPE OF SUPPORT
ED Line-oriented text line editor Available on host libra; unsupported
EMACS Customizable screen-oriented text editor Available on host libra; unsupported
Elm Electronic mail system Available on host libra; unsupported
EX Line-oriented text editor Available on host libra; unsupported
FORTRAN FORTRAN compiler Consulting
GNU C C compiler Consulting
GNU C++ C++ compiler Consulting
GNU LISP LISP compiler Available on host libra
Lynx Text-based World Wide Web browser Consulting, documentation
Mail Unix OS generic electronic mail program Consulting
Oracle Oracle relational database For classes and projects only
Pascal Pascal compiler Available on host libra
PICO Screen-oriented, menu-driven text editor Consulting
PicoSpan Bulletin board system Documentation
Smalltalk Smalltalk compiler Available on host libra; unsupported
Solaris SUN Microsystems's version of Unix operating system Consulting, documentation
SUN C C compiler for SUN Solaris Consulting
Telnet Remote host login program Consulting, Documentation
Tin Netnews reader Consulting, Documentation
VI Screen-oriented text editor Consulting

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