Detailed Instructions for printing Lecture Notes

Note for a detailed explanation of the format of these files, you can look at this explanation.

First logon or putty or ssh to a prime/p1/p2 client (e.g. odd05). The name may need to be fully spelled out (odd05.cs.ohio.edu). Then you should do the following:

odd05.cs.ohio.edu% cp /home/cs6800/lectures/lec01.ps.gz .
odd05.cs.ohio.edu% gunzip lec01.ps.gz
odd05.cs.ohio.edu% lp lec01.ps
request id is 6
odd05.cs.ohio.edu% 

The results will appear on the printer in room Stocker 307 by default. It is possible to print to other printers, please ask someone familiar with Unix for help. Repeat the above steps altering the lec01 to lec02, lec03, ... to print the other lectures notes.

To see what files are available use the ls (listing) command of Unix.

odd05.cs.ohio.edu% ls /home/cs6800/lectures
lec01.ps.gz	lec02.ps.gz	lec03.ps.gz	lec04.ps.gz	syl.ps.gz
odd05.cs.ohio.edu% 

Note: you should feel free to remove the files from your account after printing them out to save disk space. To do this simply type:

odd05.cs.ohio.edu% rm lec01.ps
odd05.cs.ohio.edu% 

NOTE: to view postscript, or pdf files on prime/p1/p2 or the newer odd03, etc. machines, you can use the gv program. You don't even need to uncompress the lecture, you can simply type:

odd05.cs.ohio.edu% gv lec01.ps.gz
And you can view the lectures on any ubuntu machine. To get them to appear rightside up, use the view menu and choose landscape, also you might want to choose size letter under the view menu as well.

Note, gv can print pages using its gui interface as well.