A.
You'd have to use some sort of "telnet" program on your home machine
that will dial up BU and allow you to log into CSA (with username and
password). Then you can run an editor and a compiler as usual (as
we'll learn about in first week's labs). That's about as specific I
can be since each student might have different kinds of software to
telnet in.
The Personal Computing Support Center (in basement of 111 Cummington St.) is the place to go with questions about how to use your specific PC communications software.
A.
You can log into csa from home. If you know how to log into ACS from
home, it's the same, except when you tell it what machine to log into,
specify csa instead.
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PCs, Macs and UNIX machines use different representations for the end
of a line.
If you transfer the program to our machines via an FTP program, you should transfer it using a "text mode" (it may be called ASCII or something else--essentially, you want the "not binary" mode). How you might do that will depend on your PC software, but it usually takes care of the translation of how the end-of-line is represented on different computers.
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You can use a program called "dos2unix" to convert the end-of-lines.
First, download your program from your home machine to ours. Suppose
the program was named "sum.c". Then, on our system you'd run
"dos2unix" on it as:
Make sure to give the 2nd parameter, which is its new name. That will convert end-of-lines. After that, you can rename the new file if needed.dos2unix sum.c newname.c
There is also a "unix2dos" command.
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may work if the arrows don't.Control-b for Back Control-f for Forward Control-p for Previous Line Control-n for Next Line