# Special Commands for SICS Administrators and Programmers

This section describes a few commands which need not be known to SICS users.

- Access Macintosh serial ports.
- An internal scan command.
- Accessing Siematic SPS controllers.
- Aliases.
- Reoccuring tasks.
- Direct access to RS232 controllers through the terminal server.
- Scripting the content of NeXus files.
- Automatic update of files during long counting operations.