On the cslab computers, you'll find the public directory for this class at
/cslab/class/csci235
Note that these files are not available as web pages. You must be logged in to one of the lab computers to access them (though you can copy them from there to your own computer, if you wish).
The files from class will show up under the directory
in-class. If all there was for a day was a single
handout, you'll find it named MM-DD.pdf. If there is more
than one file, there will instead be in a directory named MM-DD.
For example, to
list the files from September 4, you could use the command
ls /cslab/class/csci235/in-class/09-04
You might then see something like
09-04.pdf Pangram-1.java Pangram-3.java Pangram-0.java Pangram-2.java Pangram.java
Any .pdf files are formatted for printing.
To look at a .pdf file online, use the a command like
evince /cslab/class/csci235/in-class/09-04/09-04.pdf &
From within that program, you can select and print particular pages. Or, to print the entire file, use
lpr -Pcs /cslab/class/csci235/in-class/09-04/09-04.pdf
Files that are not yet formatted for printing can be formatted more
nicely by the a2ps command. The code handouts from class
are typically produced with
a2ps -2 --file-align=fill -Pcs filenames...
The -2 says to print two pages per sheet, and
--file-align=fill says to fill all the available space.
Later in the semester, some of the directories will be Mercurial
repositories, in which case you can retreive earlier versions of the
files. If you use ls -a, the presence of a subdirectory
named .hg indicates that there is a repository present.
To look at earlier versions, you would clone the repository to your own
working copy, then use hg log to find out what versions exist
and hg revert to get particular versions. (More info
about that will show up in the Mercurial tips.)
Last modified: Thu Aug 29 15:36:19 CDT 2013