how to submit assignments when odyssey fails

Allan Caine

October 22, 2009

How to Submit Assignments when

Odyssey is Slow or Fails

Outline

1. Download and Install Your Client Software

2. FTP your Files to Your UNIX Account

3. Submit your Files through a UNIX Shell

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Assumptions

For Windows (I don’t own a MAC)

Submitting from your own laptop or PC; i.e. you

are NOT using a lab computer

We are trying to submit A4

You are connected to the Internet, obviously

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Downloading Your Client

Software

1. Go to

http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/istweb/isthomepage.htm/

2. Click on the link entitled Get Software

3. Click on the link entitled Software Depot

4. Click on the link entitled Windows SSH Client

5. Enter your UW userid and Quest password

6. Click on the link entitled Download the Latest

Software

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Installing your Client Software

1. Run the Installer Program you just downloaded

2. Follow all of the installer prompts

3. Allow the installer to put icons on your desktop

4. Once the installation process is finished, you

should see two icons on your desktop that look

like this:

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Step #2

Step #1

Overview

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Your laptop cpu02.student.cs.uwaterloo.caAuto-marker

FTPing your Files

1. Run the FTP

Program

2. Click on

Quick

Connect

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Connect to the Remote Host

Enter the Host

Name

Enter your UW

userid

Click on

Connect

The host name is

cpu02.student.cs.uwaterloo

.ca

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Enter your Password

Enter your UNIX account password; i.e. the

password that is NOT your Quest password

Click OK

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Prepare a Directory on Remote

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Expand the cs115 Directory

We double-clicked

on the cs115 folder

to expand it.

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Create your a4 directory

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Expand your new a4 directory

Double-click

on the a4 folder

to expand it.

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The Remote Host is Ready

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Locate Your Files on Local

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Drag the files from Local to

Remote

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Open a Secure Shell

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We are now at a UNIX prompt

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The commands to Enter1. cd cs115

2. cd a4

3. submit cs115 a4 .

4. logout

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Your Screen after Commands 1 &

2

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Just about to Submit

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After Submission

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Logout

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Disconnect your FTP Session

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After FTP Session Disconnects

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Final Notes

Try and use Odyssey first; arguably, it is easier

Use this approach only when it appears the

Odyssey is slow or appears to be failing

You can use the approach repeatedly, but you will

be warned that you are trying to overwrite files

when FTPing your new files to Remote;

generally, you want to respond “Yes” to overwrite

warnings

At the time of writing, there is no word on how A3

late submissions will be handled

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