Exercises for randurl

The initial exercise:

• Copy rand.html, names.txt, and randurl.c to your directory.

• Rename randurl.c to be randurl-$sno$.c.
  $sno$ is your student number.

• Modify randurl-$sno$.c to refer to your copy of name.txt in your directory (i.e. alter RANDS and HOME).

• Compile randurl-$sno$.c on fivedots:
  (i.e. gcc -Wall -o randurl-$sno$ randurl-$sno$.c).

• Copy it to the student CGI directory on

• Modify your rand.html to refer to randurl-$sno$

• Try executing randurl-$sno$ via rand.html.

A further exercise:

• Modify your names.txt so that other kinds of URLs are chosen by randurl-$sno$

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