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From: louie@umd5.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: students editing output
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Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 16:01:15 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 16:01:15 1985
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Reply-To: louie@umd5.UUCP (Louis Mamakos)
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This reminds me of a system that a few of us hacked together for an ACM
programming competition a few years back.  The contest was run on a Sperry
1100 mainframe, but the same sort of thing could be done on most systems.

We provided a program that would generate a runstream ("shell script") that
would run the program.  There were two type of runs that could be requested;
a TEST run and a JUDGED run.  The data for the TEST run was generated by
the contestents.  The data for the JUDGED run was provided from a hidden
source.  Note that the contestents NEVER was able to see the real data or
the results of the run.  The eliminated opportunities to edit the output.
The output produced from the JUDGED runs was directed to a specific printer
not available to the contestants.  On a UNIX machine, you could mail the
output to the grader.  I think you can get the idea...

-- 
Louis A. Mamakos WA3YMH   University of Maryland, Computer Science Center
 Internet: louie@trantor.arpa
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