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The unsw/common directory contains information that applies to the Digital Systems Laboratory in general, or to more than one course using that Laboratory. You should take the time to browse through this information, as you will find it useful for your laboratory work.

You should pay particular attention to a number of documents. In particular, it is difficult to be successfully complete your work without understanding how the tools work. For that reason, you should take the time to read through An Introduction to the GNU Assembler, An Introduction to the GNU Compiler, An Introduction to the GNU Debugger and An Introduction to Komodo. Please note that you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader (or another PDF viewer) on your computer to read these documents.

You can also set up your computer’s environment to be similar to the one in the Digital Systems Laboratory. In fact, the files made available on this CD-ROM are the ones used in the Laboratory. Instruction are provided for setting up your Linux environment and for setting up your Microsoft Windows environment.

The term computer environment, as used in this context, simply means the “look and feel” of the software. In other words, it involves things like the settings you should change in the editor, the icons on your desktop and configuration files for the shell. Some of these things tend to be very subjective and personal (everyone has their own preference regarding colours, for example); the setup documents have been written to take this into account.