Review Exercise 6
Sobell, Chapter 7 (pg 244)
Class notes, general Unix stuff you should know
Due Date: 4/19/02


Please complete the following Review Exercises.
Place your answers underneath each question using a
Unix text editor.  Turn in your answers as follows: turnin ex6 exercise6.txt 

1. Describe the similarities and differences between these utilities:

   a. rcp and ftp
   b. rlogin and telnet
   c. rsh and rlogin 

2. Explain the client/server model, and give three examples of services
   that take advantage of this model on Solaris systems.

3. Explain what happens if you transfer a binary file while running ftp in
   ASCII mode.  What happens if you transfer an ASCII file in binary mode? 

4. An interesting language named Perl was developed for Unix systems.  It is
   in the public domain (free).  How can you use the Internet to find a copy
   and download it to your system?

5. How can you determine what group you are in?

6. What is the simplest command to compile the following C program: random.c ?

7. What is the simplest command to compile the following Fortran program: random.f ?

8. How do you access a floppy disk on a Sun workstation?

9. Give a command to recursively gzip all your files starting
   at your home directory.

10. Give the commands to find all your processes and to kill one of them.