Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!wb8foz From: wb8foz@ncoast.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: Cheating on Programming Assignments Message-ID: <2316@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 15:18:52 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.2316 Posted: Mon Apr 6 15:18:52 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Apr-87 05:55:35 EST References: <248@rruxa.UUCP> <2625@phri.UUCP> <843@fmsrl7.UUCP> Reply-To: wb8foz@ncoast.UUCP (David Lesher) Distribution: na Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 22 Keywords: how *not* to prevent My illustrious undergrad institution had a ?better? idea to this problem. On the (totally worthless) Big blue mainframe, they removed the 'spool' command. Thus students could not move files anywhere. Since your account was assigned by class (yep 3 classes, 3 accounts) and was pitched into a black hole each quarter, you ended up typing in your execs (ie .rc files for us real OS users) every 11 weeks. And of course, all it did was convert the assignments into a 'typing' class. I sure am glad I was an engineering student. We had a VAX cluster. -- decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!wb8foz ncoast!wb8foz@case.csnet (ncoast!wb8foz%case.csnet@csnet-relay.ARPA) "SERIOUS? Bones, it could upset the entire percentage!" NRO Mossad intercept igniters plutonium Ollie North Tehran