[LON-CAPA-users] Uploading a mass of questions

[James Sullivan]

Unfortunately I think there is a bug in version 2.1 (the version we are
running) that does not handle zip or tar files correctly (decompress gives
error). I will inquire about getting ssh access to the library server.

Thanks,
Jay
 
> Jay,
> 
> You can zip the problems together and upload a complete zip 
> or tar file.
> LON-CAPA will pull it apart for you. You want to be careful 
> about the number of files in any one directory (a single 
> directory with 700 files will be hard to handle).
> 
> I also endorse the suggestion that you ssh in. Your 
> construction space is simply your /home/user/public_html 
> directory, but you need to be careful with ownership of the files.
> 
> Later,
> Mark
> 
> 
> > In that case, even though it's *strongly discouraged* and 
> not really 
> > supported, I think your best bet is going to be going into 
> the library 
> > server directly via ssh, and dealing with the tarball at 
> the command 
> > line.  Many of us here, including myself, could help you 
> through this 
> > offline, as long as you have a shell account on the server. 
>  Let me know if you want a hand.
> >
> > Todd
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday 07 November 2006 05:15 pm, James Sullivan wrote:
> >> Let's say I had a bunch of loncapa problems on my hard drive. I 
> >> produced these from parsing a latex file that a colleague 
> passed me. 
> >> He uses Scientific Workplace to generate test banks of questions.
> >>
> >> There's 748 questions in total; all of which have been 
> seperated and 
> >> formatted to loncapa conventions by my script. I could 
> copy and paste 
> >> each file into the xml editor but there has to be a better way.
> >>
> >> What's the quickest way to get them up to loncapa? We are 
> running 2.1 
> >> so I don't think I can upload a tar ball.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Jay
> >>
> >>
> >> James M. Sullivan, Assistant Professor jmsullivan@vcu.edu
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