Set up the C++ example

1.

Using netscape again, pick up the compressed version of the stack example from the handout.

2.

Uncompress the resulting file, then unpack it using tar. The command is tar -xvf c++.tar.gz. It will print a list of the files it is unpacking and create directory named c++example.

3.

Use cd to move into the c++example directory, and type ls to see what's there. Now type make stack to try to compile the program. It will fail, and report that the command CC was not found. CC is the C++ compiler, but it does not exist on all the SGI machines. For now, it only exists on iris12.

4.

Move into your iris12 window and cd into the c++examples directory. Type make stack again. This time it should succeed.

5.

Run the newly-compiled executable named stack. It should print a bunch of numbers from 17 to 26 and back to 17.

6.

Stop here and read the C++ handout, referring to the examples you just set up. The UNIX commands to read the contents of a file are cat and more.