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Students Applied Mathematics courses will probably
not have access to Unix workstations.
If you are an instructor in such a class,
be careful to acquaint yourself with the capabilities
of the kinds of computers -- mainly the Macs and PCs in the big
ITS
computer labs -- which they are likely to use.
Netscape
All the PCs and Macs in ITS labs will run Netscape, so it's not
unreasonable to expect students to get information via the Web.
However, don't expect students to be
able to print PostScript
files from the Web, unless you give
explicit
instructions on how to do it.
Also, text files from ftp:// sources
may cause difficulty if downloaded to Macs,
because of differing end-of-line characters;
in providing text files to be grabbed with Netscape
it may be necessary to provide a
Mac and non-Mac version.
Email
All students can get an email account on one of the main
ITS servers;
spot, stripe, ucsu,
ucsub, or rintintin.
If they don't already have such an account, they can
create one themselves
using the ``Self Account Creation'' (SAC) facility
on C.U.'s PLUS Web page; a student only needs to
have her CU ID number and PIN on hand.
To log on to one's email account from a PC or Mac,
use Telnet, which is available on all the ITS
computers. New users should be advised to use
pine.
Mathematica, Maple, Matlab
As of fall 1996, many of the Macintosh computers in the
ITS labs have Maple and Mathematica.
Matlab can be found on many of the PC clones
in the engineering building ITS labs.
It's probably a good idea to check out specific labs for
specific software
before requiring its use; these things can change from month to month.
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