CS 3733 Operating Systems, Fall 2001 Assignment 0


Due Wednesday, September 5, 2001

Assignment 0 has 5 parts.


Part 0:
Access the web site: /classes/cs3733f2001 and find out about assignment 1.

Part 1:
Make sure that you have had your picture taken. If it was not done after the first or second class, come to my office.

Part 2:
Subscribe to the newsgroups utsa.cs.3733 and utsa.cs.3733.d. You should check these newsgroups at least once a week. Read all of the articles in these newsgroups.

Part 3
If you have not already done so, create a web page for yourself.
The address of your web page should be http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~username. Create a course web page with web address http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~username/cs3733/index.html. This should be globally accessible. Your course web page should be very simple without much graphics so that it will load quickly over a phone line.

The permissions of the public_html and cs3733 directories should be drwxr-xr-x and the permissions of the index.html file should be -rw-r--r--.

If you are not familiar with creating HTML files, you may want to use the template available in /usr/local/courses/cs3733/fall2001/webtemplate. Put the file index.html in your ~username/public_html/cs3733 directory. Edit this file and insert your name in two places.

Part 4:
When you have completed the other parts of the assignment, send me email at srobbins@cs.utsa.edu informing me that you have completed all parts of Assignment 0. The subject line should be
CS 3733 Assignment 0
This email must be sent directly from your CS Sun account.
The body of your mail message should contain a statement indicating that you have completed the prerequisites for the course and indicate how you satisfied each prerequisite. For example you can state that you took CS 2413 at UTSA last semester and took CS 2734 and CS 3233 the semester before.
Alternatively, you can attach a copy of an email message from me to you in which I state that you may take the course without having formally completed the prerequisites.

Also include a statement about your C programming ability. The ability to program in C and to be able to manipulate strings and pointers is a requirement for this course.

If you are not prompted for a subject line when you send mail, insert an alias in your .cshrc as follows:
alias mail mailx
source your .cshrc and try again.