From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!TNTECH.BITNET!WSR5672 From: WSR5672@TNTECH.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: How is Ada treated at other schools?? Message-ID: <8911152101.AA01544@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 15 Nov 89 15:45:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet List-Id: 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! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- E-mail: US mail: wsr5672@tntech.bitnet Scott Redmon 910 N. Willow Apt. T-9 Tennessee Technological University Cookeville TN 38501 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------