The George Washington University
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Department of Computer Science
CSci 51 -- Spring 2001
Project #0
Due Date: 5 PM, Friday, Jan. 19, 2001

The purpose of this exercise is to get you onto the computer and using the editor and e-mail system to compose a message. You will get assistance for this during the first lab meetings.

Part I. Getting your accounts set up before the lab meets for the first time.

GW has two computer organizations, the School of Engineering and Applied Science Computing Facility (SEASCF) and the Computer Information and Resource Center (CIRC). SEASCF manages the central computer you will use for this course, a Sun/Solaris Unix server called hobbes. CIRC manages the Windows and Mac computers in the labs and classrooms; you will use these as terminals to hobbes. So you will need student accounts from both organizations. There is no charge for these but you must apply in person. You must arrange for these computer accounts before your first laboratory meeting!
  1. Get a Novell network account, so you can use the computers in the lab room. You can do this at CIRC, on the B1 level of the Academic Center.

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  2. Get your Unix account set up at SEAS, 4th floor, Tompkins Hall. SEASCF is open until midnight. Even if you already have a SEASCF account, you must renew it this semester because they are using a new accounting system on a new computer.

Part II. Getting ready to use your hobbes account for CSci 51.

  1.  Go to a computer and log in to hobbes.seas.gwu.edu. If you've never done this before, wait till the first lab session and you'll get help on it there. Type the following to get your account set up:

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    . ~csada/setup-51

    This must be typed in exactly as you see it, including the initial dot and the "tilde." If you have files in your file system from other courses, the setup script will leave those untouched. The setup process will, however, modify your .kshrc and .profile files to give you read-only access to the shared directories like programs51 and info. You will also start receiving a "news flash" from the professor and lab instructor every time you log in.

  2. Once the setup is done, copy the file info/survey.txt into your file system:

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    cp info/survey.txt ~
     

  3. Bring the survey form into the editor:

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    vi survey.txt
     

  4. Use the editor to fill in the requested information on the survey form, then save the survey back in your file system.

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  5. Send the survey as an e-mail message to Prof. Feldman:

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    elm mfeldman <survey.txt

    and your lab instructor. Your lab instructor will tell you which e-mail address to use.
     

  6. Log off.
We will both acknowledge receipt by sending a "thank you" message back to you. You will then know that we can communicate with each other.