Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 14:43:59 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.2 Content-type: text/html
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse415The first thing you need to do to get going is to get an account on the MSCC machines. Also, please subscribe to the class mailing-list. To do this, send e-mail to cse415-request@ms.washington.edu with a subject line saying:
Subject: subscribeThe body should be empty. The class mailing list will be used to communicate useful information for the class. The alias for the class is cse415@ms.washington.edu. Please be careful when responding to messages from the alias that you do not respond to the whole class if you don't want to. Some news readers will reply to all as a default.
In the MSCC lab there are numerous handouts about the computing environment. The basic gist is that you get a Unix account. There is a subdirectory in your home directory, My-Mac-Files, that can be made visible on the Macintosh. The rest is your standard UNIX directory. Following is a basic explanation of where to find Lisp on the Unix machines and on the Macintosh machines.
You can use your account on the MSCC machines to store work on the Macintosh. This is probably explained somewhere in the MSCC center, but here's a brief summary:
One more detail, that you don't have to know, but in case you're interested. The My-Mac-Files that you mount from the Macintosh is the same as the My-Mac-Files in your UNIX home directory.
A note about the MSCC machines is that they are load sharing. That means that when you type cl, it will execute on a different machine. Please note that to kill it, you have to kill it on that machine. There is more information on load sharing and how to disable it if you type man lsf. Please be careful not to leave jobs lying around.