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 # Introduction
 
-**Before beginning:** Read this [lab tutorial](lab-tutorial.pdf); 
+**Before beginning:** Read this [lab tutorial](http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/lab-tutorial.pdf);  
 it has some useful tips for programming in the C environment.
 
 This project is a simple warm-up to get you used to how this whole
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 # Unix Utilities
 
+**Before beginning:** Read this [lab tutorial](http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/lab-tutorial.pdf);  
+it has some useful tips for programming in the C environment.
+
 In this project, you'll build a few different UNIX utilities, simple versions
 of commonly used commands like **cat**, **ls**, etc. We'll call each of them a
 slightly different name to avoid confusion; for example, instead of **cat**,