Entering Splus on a unix machine is easy. First, you need to log in to oberon or puck; use the ssh amon command in the xterm on the mac to do this. When you get your UNIX prompt character (usually `%'), just type Splus and press the carriage return:
% Splus S-PLUS : Copyright (c) 1988, 1999 MathSoft, Inc. S : Copyright Lucent Technologies, Inc. Version 5.1 Release 1 for Sun SPARC, SunOS 5.5 : 1999 Working data will be in /home/jones/MySwork >Note that Splus gives you a greater-than symbol (>) as the prompt.
The first time you do this Splus will create a directory called `MySwork' in which to store datasets and functions defined within your Splus session. Actually, Splus creates a subdirectory in the MySwork directory called .Data.
Datasets and functions you create during your session remain in the .Data directory until you remove them. In other words, you don't have to retype your data over and over.