WSR5672@TNTECH.BITNET (11/15/89)
This message is geared more toward academic environments than those that
are in industry.
I am curious to know what kind of restrictions are placed on Ada users at
other campuses. Here at Tenn Tech, we are given a quota of 2500 blocks.
After the semester is over, you account is de-authorized and your disk quota
is set back at 500 blocks.
I work for our computer center as a student consultant, which means I help
undergrads with error messages and the gradates with logic errors.
This entitles me to have 2000 blocks (less than what I had when I was in
Ada) and supposedly my account is not de-authorized every semester though
it has been on one ocassion.
Now, thanks to Princeton's bitftp , we are able to get all this software from
simtel20, but the computer center will not let us put it in a computer science
account. We were told that was the not purpose of the account nor was there
the disk space to accomodate our request. At present , on the disk pack
with our user accounts there are over 180,000 blocks free. On the sytem disk
pack of the computer center there is 65000 block free. At the end of the
semester there will still be plenty of disk space free, before undergraduate
accounts are de-authorized. Not to mention the fact there are those in our
computer center who are wasting space with duplication of various files.
At the present, I get the files from simtel20 and send them to another Ada
user here at Tech who is the administrator of the Sun workstations of our
basic engineering department. He downloads everything to the Suns. So,
we have the software, but it's not available at a moments notice. The only
thing we have an Ada compiler on is the VAX, so the software isn't too useful
on the Suns.
I want to know if Ada users at other universities have to put up with this
type of treatment. I am curious to know if people in industry have problems
with resources...disk space...etc.
(It's a shame to like a language, but to have to make a decision of whether
to keep your source code or your ada library). I keep my Ada library in
a temporary file area that gets erased every morning.
Scott Redmon
My attitude and opinions are obviously not those of the D.W. Mattson
Computer Center, but the result therefof!
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