[vox-tech] help with script

[Mark K. Kim]

The CS department uses `script` and uses `handin` to turn in the files and
log when the files were turned in.  Or at least that's what they did when
I was there last year+.

-Mark

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:

> hi lugod,
>
> i'm allowing my students to turn in their assignments electronically
> this quarter.  they're writing C or fortran programs.  i'm requiring
> them to turn in:
>
> 1. the program
> 2. a file showing the compile process and the program output.
>
> for #2, i'm having them use "script".
>
> however, script shows annoying ^M's plus any kind of backspacing and
> term codes:
>
>    Script started on Wed Oct  2 17:00:24 2002
>    ^[]0;dhevan@jensen:~^G[dhevan@jensen dhevan]$ cc program1.c^M
>    ^[]0;dhevan@jensen:~^G[dhevan@jensen dhevan]$ exit^M
>    exit^M
>
> some of these people hardly know how to log into a unix system, let
> alone use sed or even vi's ex commands.  i'm astounded that most of them
> use vi at all.
>
> i can write a script that presents a shell like interface which short
> circuits this stuff saves their program output to a file, but if
> something is already written, i'd rather go that route.
>
> any suggestions?   what does the CS department do for electronically
> submitted document?
>
> pete
>
> ps- for the astute reader, the professor told them to compile programs
> with "cc" rather than "gcc".  it wasn't me.
>
> pete
>
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