CSCI 201 Lab 1 -- Submitting assignment to your FTP account
What you need to know to start
You must know four things in order to make the dropoff.
The location of your project
This is the location you
specifed when you filled in the New dialog
box to create your project.
In the example below, the location of the project is
C:\Files\Home0X.
The names of the files to copy
Your instructor's homework assignment will specify the names of the
files you are to create and copy to your
FTP dropoff directory. Generally these files will be
C++ source files. In the example below the name of the
file is AssignX.cpp.
Your bulldog user id
This should be something like wjclinto,
that is, your initials followed by the first six letters of your
last name.
Your secret dropoff code
This was given to you by your instructor. It is your bulldog
user id follow by four secret numbers. It will be
something like wjclinto1357.
Making the drop
You'll need to run an FTP client in order to dropoff your program.
Although there are many FTP clients for MS Windows,
we are going to use the command line FTP client that
is packaged with MS Windows in this example. It's certainly not the
best or simplest FTP, but it is one you are
guaranteed to have on your PC.
Here are the steps you need to make.
Bring up an MS/DOS command prompt
Go to your Start menu and select the item labeled
Command Prompt. This should bring up a
window with the following icon in its upper-left
hand corner.
Connect to your program's device
Remember that your program was stored in a directory
with a name similar to C:\Files\Home0X.
The letter before the colon is a device selector.
Type your device selector followed by a semi-colon.
In our example case, you'd type
Connect to your program's directory
Now connect to your program's directory with the cd
command. Following our example we type:
Your MS/DOS prompt should change to be the name of this directory.
At this point, you should also type the MS/DOS command dir
to make sure the files you wish to transfer are in the directory.
Start up FTP
Type ftp ftp.cs.unca.edu. This should connect you
to the UNCA CSCI FTP server and ask for a user id.
This interaction will look like:
- A:xxxxxx>ftp ftp.cs.unca.edu
- Connected to woodfin.cs.unca.edu
- 220 woodfin.cs.unca.edu FTP server .....
- User (woodfin.cs.unca.edu:(none)):
Giving a user id and password
Type the three letters ftp as your user id
and then type your bulldog e-mail address
(for example, wjclinto@bulldog.unca.edu)
as your "password". The "password" will not be
echoed when you type it.
- User (woodfin.cs.unca.edu:(none)):ftp
- 331 Guest login ok, send your complete email address as password
- Password:
You should then get a message stating that you have
connected to the anonymous FTP server of the Department
of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina
at Asheville.
Connecting to the CSCI 201 dropoff directory
At the ftp> prompt,
type cd pub/201 to connect to the master
dropoff directory for CSCI 201. The interchange will look something like:
- ftp> cd pub/201
- 250-This the dropoff directory for CSCI201. Contact your CSCI201
- 250-instructor to get the name of your personal dropoff directory.
- 250-
- 250 CWD command successful.
- ftp>
Connecting to your dropoff directory
Now use FTP's cd command to connect to your
secret dropoff directory. This should look like:
- ftp> cd wjclinto1357
- 250-William Clinton's CSCI 201 dropoff
- 250-
- 250 CWD command successful.
Transfering your files
For each file you are to transfer, type put
followed by the file name.
- put AssignX.cpp
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for AssignX.cpp
- 226 Transfer complete.
Getting out of FTP
Type quit at the ftp> prompt.
Getting out of MS/DOS
Finally type exit and the MS/DOS command window
should disappear.