This project will allow you to learn how to transfer files between different computers. This project is due electronically before 11:59pm on Wednesday October 25th.
In this project you are expected to use the techniques you learned in project #1 to create PDF files. For example, if you are using Windows, this implies you will "print" the file using "CutePDF Writer" which will create the PDF file for you. This is what we are referring to when we ask you to save a file as a PDF file.
For this part, you will need to make an Anonymous FTP connection to the machine ftp.cs.umd.edu and go to the directory /pub/classes/cmsc102 on that server and download the text file rfc1149.txt to a PC running Windows. Make sure you use the ASCII transfer mode for this. Once you have this text file on your machine, open it using the Notepad application (under START-ACCESSORIES) and print the file to a PDF file named P3Part1.pdf.
You will submit the P3Part1.pdf file to us as part of the ZIP file for this project.
For this part, you will need to make an FTP connection to the machine ftp.cs.umd.edu and go to the directory /pub/classes/cmsc102 on that server and download the non-text file P3Part2.pdf to your computer. Make sure you use the BINARY transfer mode for this. Once you have this text file on your machine, open it using the your PDF reader application and make sure you can see the message "IF YOU CAN READ THIS THEN YOU DOWNLOADED THE FILE USING THE CORRECT MODE". If you do not have a PDF reader, you can download Acrobat Reader for free.
You will submit the P3Part2.pdf file to us as part of the ZIP file for this project.
For this part, you will need to first create a document on your computer
to upload. Go to the page:
http://www.testudo.umd.edu/apps/ssched
and login and bring up your current class schedule and take a screenshot of
this page and save that screenshot (as you have previously done with
screenshots) to your computer as a PDF file named P3Part3.pdf.
Now, make a Secure FTP connection to the GRACE cluster (you should use the
grace.umd.edu alias as the host name) from a Windows PC, and upload the
PDF file to the home directory of your GRACE account.
Remember to transfer the file using the correct transfer mode.
Now, log into one of the GRACE machines so that you can submit this file.
To submit the file, make sure that you are in the same directory
as the file, and then type:
submit 2006 fall cmsc 102 #### 3 fileName
where you replace #### with your section number
(0101 for Nelson Padua-Perez,
0201 or 0301 based on which of Evan Golub's sections you are in).
and replace filename with the actual name of the file
(P3Part3.pdf)
that you uploaded earlier in this part. Keep in mind that you can submit
as many times as you want before the project deadline, so if you submit
the wrong file you can resubmit again. We only grade the last file
you submitted.
For this part, you will need to go to:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~egolub/P3image.jpg
and save the image on that page to a Windows PC.
To do this in Internet Explorer, you right-click on the image, select
Save Picture As..., and then browse to the location to which you want
to save the picture.
Once you have this image file on your machine, open it using the an image viewer application (eg: MS Paint) and create a PDF file named P3Part4.pdf with the image you downloaded in black and white. In Windows, you can generate this PDF black and white image as follows:
You will submit the P3Part4.pdf file to us as part of the ZIP file for this project.
For this part, you will need to make a Secure FTP connection to the GRACE cluster (you should use the grace.umd.edu alias as the host name), go to the directory /pub/nelsonp/ on that server, and download the program file Proj3.exe to your computer. Now, run the program Proj3.exe, and load the image (P3image.jpg) from Part IV into the program. Take a screenshot of the program and save it as a PDF file named P3Part5.pdf. If you get a message saying the application failed to initialize, you will need to update the .NET framework for Windows. This update can be found at this Microsoft page.
You will submit the P3Part5.pdf file to us as part of the ZIP file for this project.
For this part, you will need to use the scp command from the UNIX command line to transfer a file from the grace cluster of machines to your home directory on the wam.umd.edu cluster of machines.
The file is in the /pub/nelsonp directory on GRACE, and the name of the file is P3Part6.jpg.
Use the scp command to copy this file from /pub/nelsonp to your WAM home directory.
Finally, log into your WAM account, make sure that you are in your home directory, and use pine to send this file to projects102@gmail.com as an attachment. In this e-mail message make sure that the subject line is "Project 3 - UID:######### - Section XXXX" where you replace ######### with your University ID and XXXX with your section. We will be able to tell from the e-mail headers and your e-mail address that it was sent from your WAM account, so make sure that you are in your WAM account when you send this using pine.
