USING UNIX: COLLECTED TRACES OF 168 USERS
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1988-12-01
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The task of collecting long-term data on real-life computer use is
onerous. There is the technical difficulty of writing monitoring
software, the social inertia of attracting individuals to the
study, and the often overwhelming politics of obtaining an
organization's permission for executing the study. To save other
researchers the time and effort required to collect such data, this
paper describes how command line data from 168 users of the
${UNIX sup 1}$ csh system was collected and organized. The
accompanying magnetic tape includes all the data files.
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Computer Science