Basic Algorithms Class

Some hints about working on your UNIX accounts on acf5 machine (comes with your class). Everything I say below will hold true of your omicron machine account (which many of you have).

You can make files in these accounts accessible from the netscape browser as follows:
Create a directory in your account called "public_html".
Change its permissions to read and executable by all:
% chmod a+xr public_html
Change your home directory to be executable by all. Here I use my own home directory "cy1" as example:
% chmod a+x ../cy1
Now, if you point your netscape browser at the URL: http://acf5.nyu.edu/~cy1/, you will be able to download or see any files from the public_html directory.
There are java compilers in these machines. You can telnet from any machine in the PC labs to acf5, and do your java programming on acf5.
The problem is that we will have java programming problems that involve graphics, like applets. In this case, you cannot quite view your graphic output using telnet from the PC's. But you can view the graphics as applets from your browser.

Sep 15, 1998.