Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:51:17 -0600 (CST)
From: MARK JACOBSON <Mark.Jacobson@uni.edu>
Subject: Quiz Tuesday, Feb 16th...
To: 810-023-01@uni.edu

Hi 023 students,

There will be a 10 to 20 minute quiz during our next class.
The quiz will cover the Sliding Windows and TCP/IP and Command Prompt
things that we did today in lab, at least the highlights of it.
The quiz will cover the handouts and lectures and labs we have had
in the class so far.  

The quiz will NOT cover the 8 1/2 by 14 How the Power-On Self-Test Works
handout from today's class, the one on BIOS, POST and the boot process.
It will NOT cover troubleshooting either.

If you want to do the J:\AVIS folder tutorials that we did today,
they are called SLIDE and TCPIP and you can go through them again
anytime.

For information on batch files and creating them from the Windows 
NT command prompt. -----------
                                  is the hypertext link from
the 
    http://www.cns.uni.edu/~jacobson/c023.html page we looked at during
                                                    the last part of the lab.

Here are the highlights of the page we browsed to:

      Generally speaking, batch files (files with the BAT extension such as
        AUTOEXEC.BAT) are text files that can contain a list of multiple 
        commands to be executed. For example, you could write a BAT file 
        to copy multiple files or change the directory or anything 
        you can do using the "Command/DOS Prompt" commands.

      It's very easy to create BAT files:
          Go to the "DOS Prompt" or "Command Prompt" 
          Type following commands in red 
                            line by line (press ENTER after each line):


                   COPY CON MYBAT.BAT

                   ECHO Hello, world! This is my test BAT file!

                   DIR /W
                   PAUSE
                   ECHO Here comes the associations, one screen at a time.
                   ASSOC  |  MORE
                   ECHO Here comes the Paint Accessory program!
                   PBRUSH
                   ECHO Here comes my computer's IP number and subnet mask.
                   ECHO Also note the Default Gateway (router) is shown!
                   IPCONFIG

                   ^Z

      Please note that "^Z" is a single character produced by pressing CTRL+Z
      Run newly created BAT file by typing "MYBAT" and pressing ENTER. 
    
    Mark

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:26:18 -0600 (CST)
From: MARK JACOBSON <Mark.Jacobson@uni.edu>
Subject: FAT file system, Clusters...
To: 810-023-01@uni.edu

Hi 023 students,

     The FAT file system scheme is mentioned in problem 9, as well as a
mention of clusters and cluster size and disk fragmentation.  FAT stands
for File Allocation Table.  FAT, VFAT, sectors and clusters on disk
and diskette storage are things we will discuss next week in class.
There will also be handouts about these topics.

     The February 25th homework due handout problems 9 and 10 deal with
clusters, sectors, fragmentation, and FAT issues.  This will NOT be on
the QUIZ.  You will get handouts and lecture notes enough to answer these
two questions during the February 16th and February 23rd lectures and
the February 18th lab.

      Mark