CSE 341 : 29 March 2001

General information

I am Keunwoo (pronounced like "canoe"); for most purposes I am klee@cs. When office hours have been determined, they will be posted on the web page. The course web page is aliased from http://www.cs.washington.edu/341

Unix

Learn Unix as soon as possible, preferably yesterday. If you haven't yet, go to the course web page and look for tutorials. In the meantime, here's something to get you started:

One of the organizing principles of Unix is that almost everything can be done remotely (up to and including rebooting a machine). There are two common ways to use a Unix machine remotely:

1. Terminal client: Programs like Tera Term SSH allow you to bring up a terminal window with a virtual console. This is a little text window that allows you to run text-only applications, but usually does not support mouse interaction or other conveniences:
   
2. X Window: The X Window System provides a graphical environment that can run a program on one machine, but display its graphical interface on another machine. Learn to use the Reflection X tools to set up a session; there is documentation here:

   http://www.cs.washington.edu/lab/sw/uwcsexintro.html