CAS CS 112 B1 Helpful Info

• Unix intro and reference
  
  
• emacs basics and color-coding instructions (if those don't work, just type Alt-X font-lock-mode).
  
  
• If you hate emacs, try pico instead (its great advantage is that it doesn't require a manual; it's less powerful, however).
  
  
• You don't have to read your mail on csa. You can forward it to where you want if you prefer. Create a file called .forward (notice the dot at the beginning of the file name!) in your home directory on csa with the single line containg the email address you want your mail to be forwarded to. If you also want it to be kept on csa, you need to put \username, before your forwarding address. E.g., if your csa login name is foo and your forwarding address is foobar@foobarmail.com it would be
  
  \foo, foobar@foobarmail.com
  
  Make sure your .forward is world-readable by typing
  chmod o+r .forward
chmod o+x .
  at the prompt.
  
  
• gsubmit info
  
  
• More tutorials and handouts from BU's Office of Information Technology.
  
  
• Many Unix tools, including the C++ compiler gcc/g++, are available for Windows. Installation is quite simple; click "install now" and it'll take care of the rest. You can log in securely from Windows to Unix and even transfer files with a nice GUI by installing the non-commercial version of SSH's Secure Shell provided you comply with the terms of their license agreement.