Itanium® Architecture for Programmers: Understanding 64-Bit Processors and EPIC Principles

Exercises

1:	Create a short text file on your local computer, save it using proper line termination, and then upload it in text mode from your computer to the Itanium system. Use the cat or more command to look at it there. Download one of the short hidden text files in your directory on the Itanium system (such as .login) and see what it looks like using the text editor on your local system.
2:	Explain why moving a file between two dissimilar systems on a round trip journey using both get and put may not be a good test of whether each one-way journey was satisfactory.
3:	Upload a short text file in binary mode from your computer to the Itanium system. Use the man command to find out what the od command can do. Devise and explain a method to find ...