CSE 190 Home Page

This is the home page for CSE 190, Advanced Unix Programming. new!

The results from the final test is now available.

The first handout is available in postscript and PDF formats. There will be no other paper handouts -- everything else will be web-based.

A class message board is now available. Be sure to use it for various Q&A and any class-related discussions. There are some clarifications about the assignment there already.

If you haven't turned in the signed and turned in the class cheating policy form, please do so. You will not receive a grade in this class unless you do so; if I have received your form, I have sent email acknowledging its receipt (and also testing the class mailing list). This was done at Thu, 13 Apr 2000 10:26 -0700 (PDT), and another email announcing the availability of assignment 2 was sent at Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:46 -0700. If you did not receive any of these emails from me, make sure to check with me to have me check your email address.

Homeworks

All homework, unless specified otherwise, are due at midnight of the due date given below. Do not turn in StarOffice, Word, WordStar, Postscript, PDF, etc formats for your writeups. You may use tar to collect a multi-file handin together, but be sure to omit any core files or executable/relocatable binaries. Mega points off for spamming my mailbox with core images!

Homework / projects
Assignment	Summary Description	Assigned Date	Due Date
1	What does this program do?	April 11, 2000	April 18, 2000
2	"Yet Another Instructional Shell"	April 25, 2000	May 12, 2000
3	A Simple Shell Script grade statistics now available	May 18, 2000	May 25, 2000
4	More Yaish Extensions grade statistics now available	May 25, 2000	June 9, 2000

You should turn in your homework by sending it to me as email. For multi-file handins, tar(1) it up first and send it as a MIME encapsulation. Remember to use the mail address bsy+cse190.s00@cs.ucsd.edu.

Hints

Assn 1

See fflush. The notion of flushing only applies to output streams.

Assn 2

Run gunzip on the Solaris machine rather than on your home Windows box. The Makefile and C source files need to be linefeed terminated when you get them back onto the Academic Computing machines, and some Windows-based decompressors will change them to be carriage return / linefeed terminated. If you ftp them back to ieng9 in ASCII mode (as opposed to binary), the reverse transformation should happen, but it's best to not rely on it.

You may not use the system(3s) library routine. Instead, use system calls directly.

Lecture Summaries

Here are a quick listing of the topics that I went over in class. These summaries are not intended as class notes -- you should take notes in class yourself, since the process of taking notes forces you to distill the lecture's contents and you're far more likely to remember than if you had notes given to you.

Note: in the lecture summaries you will find hyperlinks to on-line manual pages. This is a web server that is running on a machine that is configured differently from the ACS machines that your OCE accounts are on, so there may be some differences in the commands that are being described. When in doubt, go to a local shell window and use the man command to look at the manual pages on the local machine.

Lecture Summaries
Lecture	Date
1	April 4, 2000
2	April 6, 2000
3	April 11, 2000
4	April 13, 2000
5	April 18, 2000
6	April 20, 2000
7	April 25, 2000
8	April 27, 2000
9	May 2, 2000
10	May 4, 2000
11	May 9, 2000
12 (midterm results)	May 11, 2000
13	May 16, 2000
14	May 18, 2000
15	May 23, 2000
16	May 25, 2000
17	May 30, 2000
18	June 1, 2000
19 -- Review for Final Test	June 6, 2000
20 -- Final Test	June 8, 2000

bsy+cse190.s00@cs.ucsd.edu, last updated Thu Jun 22 16:07:01 PDT 2000. Copyright 2000 Bennet Yee.
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