Lab1 HW Part A (Unix Tutorial)

1. What does CDE stand for?
2. What is UNIX?
3. What’s a file?
4. How do you determine the data type of a file?
5. What is the maximum allowable size of a file name for our system?
6. What is the relationship between folders and files?
7. What is the relationship between a folder and a directory?
8. What is the absolute path(s) to lab4?
9. What is the absolute path to prelab.cob?
10. What is a parent folder?
11. If your current folder is /usr/314/lab2, what is the relative path to lab1a.cob?
12. What is the home directory path name on your CIS314 account?
13. What is your account name?
14. What server are you on?
15. What is the tilde ~ character used for?
16. What do you do to your terminal if/when you need to step out of the lab for a few minutes?
17. Are the filenames ABC.txt and abc.txt the same file? Explain.
18. When using the command: ls –l /usr/class/cis314 does the prompt change from your root directory to the absolute path name listed on the command? Why or why not?
19. How do you stop/exit a Unix command?
20. What is an editor? Give an example of one.
21. What is the name of our COBOL compiler?
22. Why do you need to subscribe to the COBOL compiler?
23. What command checks the permissions of a file?
24. If you have a problem with your account, who do you contact?
25. Why can you not work on just any computer on campus?

FYI: You should be familiar with the following list of Unix commands: mkdir, rmdir, ls, cd, cp, mv, rm, cat, more, and chmod.